Neptune Sextile Pluto: What the Aspect Means

Neptune sextile Pluto is a harmonious aspect of medium strength (about 60°) between Neptune and Pluto. The aspect links two natures: Neptune — creative fantasy, imagination, fine intuition, compassion, spirituality; Pluto — inner strength, persistence, purposefulness, a drive to get to the essence.

Key points:

• • The sextile is a harmonious aspect of medium strength (about 60°).
• • Neptune in Vronsky: creative fantasy, imagination, fine intuition, compassion, spirituality.
• • Pluto in Vronsky: inner strength, persistence, purposefulness, a drive to get to the essence.
• • How the aspect plays out depends on the house Neptune occupies.

What does a sextile between Neptune and Pluto mean?

A sextile is a harmonious aspect of medium strength: an angle of about 60° between two planets. According to Vronsky, it opens favourable opportunities for ideas and plans but asks for one's own effort, will and activity; in strength and duration it is weaker than the trine.

In a tense chart a sextile softens, in a harmonious one it adds to what is already favourable. In modern Western astrology the keyword of the sextile is “opportunity” — one that has to be taken up.

In a particular chart much depends on the house Neptune occupies, and on the signs and the other aspects.

Who is born with this aspect

Neptune Sextile Pluto is an aspect between slow planets, so it is generational: it lasts for years and is shared by a whole generation (ephemeris, 6° orb): it is in the chart of everyone born in 1945–1991, 2021–2034, and of some of those born in 1941–1944, 1992–2020, 2035–2040 (in those years the aspect moves in and out of orb). It becomes personal when one of these planets touches the Ascendant, MC, Sun or Moon.

FAQ

What decides how the Neptune–Pluto sextile plays out? First of all the house Neptune occupies, and also the signs and the other aspects of the chart.

What is a sextile in astrology? A sextile is a harmonious aspect of medium strength: an angle of about 60° between two planets.

Your chart is unique

Neptune Sextile Pluto is only one detail of a horoscope: how it plays out depends on the signs, houses, aspects and the chart as a whole. Get your free natal chart → — and see how it works in yours.