When the Sun is semisextile Pluto in the Natal Chart
Sun semi-sextile Pluto
With the Sun semi-sextile Pluto in your chart, you are talented at probing, looking for the hidden agenda, and seeing the dark side with a fair level of detachment. The challenge, particularly in youth, is to recognize these traits and integrate them into your personality. At the same time, being able to detach from these things, when you do this consciously, can be a useful skill from time to time. This ability can help you avoid feeling truly overwhelmed.
There can be times when you struggle between being open and keeping things to yourself. You may also feel uncomfortable with extremes, preferring not to be either too accepting or too mistrustful.
Examples of Sun semisextile Pluto in the Birth Chart
Some famous people with this aspect in their charts are listed here. The Sun sign is listed first and the Pluto sign second:
Taurus/Gemini: Salvador Dali, Katharine Hepburn
Gemini/Cancer: Tony Curtis
Cancer/Gemini: Barbara Stanwyck
Cancer/Leo: Wilma Rudolph, Gary Busey, Ricky Skaggs
Leo/Cancer: Wilt Chamberlain, Vincent Bugliosi, George Soros, Robert Redford
Leo/Virgo: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Joe Rogan, James Hetfield, Christian Slater, Richard Armitage
Cancer/Leo: Debbie Harry
Virgo/Leo: Freddie Mercury, Jane Curtin, Joe Perry, Benjamin Orr, Debby Boone
Libra/Virgo: Tommy Lee, Shaun Cassidy, Vanessa Marcil, Sean Patrick Flannery
Virgo/Libra: Alexis Bledel, Dave Chappelle
Libra/Scorpio: Doja Cat, Josh Hutcherson
Scorpio/Libra: Damon Wayans Jr., Adam Copeland
Scorpio/Sagittarius: Amybeth McNulty, Roxanne Perez
Sagittarius/Scorpio: Tori Kelly, Nicholas Hoult, Alexa Demie, Kiersey Clemons
Sagittarius/Capricorn: Jane Austen
Capricorn/Sagittarius: Ice Spice, Hunter Schafer
Aquarius/Pisces: Charles Dickens
The Semi-Sextile Aspect
The semi-sextile aspect combines planets that are often in side-by-side signs with not very much in common, and attempting to blend the energies can be a bit of a struggle. The discrepancy can be a nagging problem in your life until you find ways to heal the issue.
In other words, with the semi-sextile (30 degrees), two planets or points in your chart that don’t have much in common as they express themselves differently, instead of having no real relationship, are attempting to get along. The friction can be minor but persistent.
However, the semi-sextile aspect offers a person a nice level of resilience. The positive side to difficulties blending energies is the potential to draw on one energy or the other when needed. The ability to manage stress during difficult periods and moderate expectations or excitement during highs is remarkable. This strength–the ability to bounce back–is largely due to flexibility and the power to temporarily turn on or off sides of the personality (usually the outermost, impersonal planet).
Transits to one of the planets or luminaries, in this case, the Sun, hit the other planet (Pluto in this example), in a different and contrasting way. For example, whenever you receive a harmonious trine transit to your Sun, you also receive a challenging square or quincunx to Pluto. Similarly, when you receive a difficult transiting square to the Sun, you might enjoy a pleasant sextile or trine from that same transiting planet to Pluto.
This fact is both protective and undermining in that you don’t feel the force of either a harmonious or disharmonious transit full-on. In essence, the good times have an edge or down side, but the bad times have a distinctly beneficial side and can’t be labeled as horrible. The semi-sextile tends to mute the extremes in either positive or negative directions!
As such, very often, when a transiting planet is boosting your Sun, it’s challenging your Pluto. When it’s boosting your Pluto, it’s challenging your Sun.
Alternate Interpretation:
You undergo deep, transformative changes in your life with relative ease and a minimum of conscious resistance. Because you don’t avoid the depths, you have access to a lot of personal power and strength. Without realizing it or seeking it, you’re apt to have quite a potent effect on the people you come into contact with, even superficially. Others sense that you’re a force to be reckoned with. — Interpretation sample from the Merlin report.
General discussion of Sun-Pluto aspects.
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Interpretations written by Annie unless otherwise noted.
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