When the Sun sextiles Ascendant in the Natal Chart
Sun sextile Ascendant
Explore what it means when the Sun and the Ascendant harmonize through a sextile aspect in your birth chart.
Sun sextile Ascendant
With your Sun sextile Ascendant, it is natural for you to be well-received by others. There’s a distinct air of authority and magnanimity that surrounds you, but it’s not intimidating. The authority you project is not offensive, primarily due to the natural sincerity that goes with it.
Unless the Ascendant or Sun are otherwise quite challenged, most people will describe you as natural, easy to like, and friendly. People notice you more than most, but it’s in a way that makes them feel at ease and comfortable.
Some Famous People with Sun sextile Ascendant
The following charts are rated AA accuracy only because the Ascendant is very sensitive to birth times. The Sun sign is listed first, and the Ascendant sign is listed second. Note that sometimes an “out of sign” sextile occurs when the Sun or Ascendant falls late in the sign and the other point very early in a sign.
Aries/Aquarius: John Houbolt
Aries/Gemini: Charlotte Lembach, Émile Jung
Taurus/Pisces: Jean Vigo
Taurus/Cancer: Salvador Dali
Gemini/Aries: Anne de Vries
Gemini/Leo: Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Marilyn Monroe, Adam Wylie
Cancer/Taurus: Mario Zanin
Cancer/Virgo: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Leo/Gemini: Keith Carradine
Leo/Libra: Margaret Hamilton
Virgo/Cancer: Hank Williams
Virgo/Scorpio: Jimmy Connors
Libra/Leo: Tom Bosley, Richard Carpenter
Libra/Sagittarius: Beatrice Worsley
Scorpio/Leo: Drake
Scorpio/Virgo: K. D. Lang
Scorpio/Capricorn: Billie Jean King
Sagittarius/Libra: Donald Maxwell
Sagittarius/Scorpio: Robin Gibb
Sagittarius/Aquarius: Jim Morrison
Capricorn/Scorpio: Jack Jones
Capricorn/Pisces: Daniel Farson, Rockdrigo González
Aquarius/Sagittarius: Flavio Maestri
Aquarius/Aries: Felipeh Campos
Pisces/Sagittarius: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Pisces/Capricorn: Mirella Freni
Pisces/Taurus: Peter Straub, Mary Wilson, Thomas Starzl
Common Themes
In these examples, each person has a unique set of astrological placements in addition to the Sun-Ascendant sextile. As such, they manifest in different ways.
However, there are some distinctly common themes in these examples of people with this natal chart aspect, including such things as:
- a personality that others want to be around,
- a comfortable presentation,
- physical vitality, coordination, and/or dexterity
They’re often described as likable, cooperative, trend-setting, or generous with a sunny disposition or shining personality.
General discussion of Sun-Ascendant aspects.
About the sextile aspect
What is a sextile? A sextile is an astrological aspect of 60 degrees and in the group of major aspects. Astrologers generally consider two planets or points to be sextile one another if they are approximately 55 to 65 degrees away from each other, give or take. This range depends on the orb an astrologer allows and, in this example, the orb is 5 degrees. In reality, different astrologers use different orbs.
The sextile is considered harmonious and easy. The planets forming a sextile are playing nicely with one another, making benefits and opportunities more likely. In fact, sextiles hold the potential for an intelligent use of the energies of the involved planets and points.
Sextiles are one of several aspects that astrologers consider to be harmonious, flowing, positive, supportive, or cooperative. The trine is another harmonious major aspect.
Alternate meanings of this aspect:
It helps to explore different interpretations from various authors.
Sun sextile Ascendant:
You can get by in life almost by personality alone. There is a radiant, warm, attractive quality about you that others can’t help responding to favorably. Usually you appear confident and clear about who you are, and it’s very difficult not to notice you or feel your influence when you are around.
— Sample interpretation from the Merlin report.
Your ability to project liveliness, harmony and enthusiasm in your relationships is a strong asset for your creation of prosperity. Others are inspired to cooperate with you in a constructive, creative way. Your relationship with your partner will go well, and would especially lead to success if you are in business together. You have a talent for leading children’s activities and for spreading cheer wherever you go.
— Sample interpretation from the Prosperity report.
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Interpretations written by Annie unless otherwise noted.
