Aspects
Mercury Sextile Venus
Modern
Your thinking and your love of beauty cooperate, so charm, tact, and a feel for the right word come naturally: pleasant conversation, an eye for art, easy diplomacy. It is a light, lovely gift. The catch is keeping it surface, all polish and no depth. The growth is letting the grace carry real substance. At your best you say kind, true things in a way people love to hear.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
A sixty-degree aspect joins the two in easy agreement, and Ptolemy counts the A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. among the harmonious configurations. Between Mercury and Venus it lets thought and grace cooperate: the native speaks pleasingly, thinks with a feel for beauty, and smooths exchanges without strain. The gift is easy charm of mind and a knack for the kind, well-chosen word; the cost is that the gift can stay light, the diplomacy never deepened into substance.
Lean in — Let the easy charm carry real substance, not just polish.
Watch for — Keep the talk all pleasant and never deep.
- charming
- tactful
- articulate
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, I.13Counts the sextile among the harmonious, agreeing configurations.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)Reads the Mercury-Venus sextile as charm of mind and the well-chosen word.