When the Sun sextiles Chiron

When the Sun sextiles Chiron in the Natal Chart

Explore what it means when the Sun and Chiron harmonize through a sextile aspect in your birth chart.

Sun sextile Chiron

With the Sun forming a sextile with Chiron in your natal chart, you are original and naturally follow your own path. The desire to grow, improve, heal, and help others is in many ways innate–it’s a part of your core identity–but it’s also something you actively develop. You are resilient, ready to solve problems rather than dwell on them.

You have a talent for intuiting what might help and heal people, and you’re great at devising remedies and solutions. An expert at turning anything (even an experience) into something useful, you are resourceful and readily find meaning, magic, and purpose in what others see as ordinary.

You also have a strong sense of what will boost others’ spirits and confidence, which makes you a great counselor, therapist, and friend. As you mature and your self-respect grows, you readily gain people’s interest, regard, and respect. You’re also a very principled person, and you bring warm wisdom to your relationships and pursuits. In fact, you have a remarkable ability to grow and learn through your experiences as you know when to humble yourself or tone down the ego to let in life’s lessons.

Some Famous People with Sun sextile Chiron

Aries/Aquarius: Reba McEntire, Lena Olin, Sean Bean

Aries/Gemini: Keira Knightley, Shay Mitchell, Lady Gaga

Taurus/Pisces: Janet Jackson, Valerie Bertinelli, Melissa Gilbert

Gemini/Aries: Judy Garland, Hugh Dancy, Mark Wahlberg, Anne Heche, Noah Wyle

Gemini/Leo: Barry Manilow

Cancer/Taurus: Nicole Scherzinger, Priyanka Chopra, Eva Green, Jessica Simpson, Kevin Hart, Taylor Kinney, Jason Mraz

Cancer/Virgo: Camila Mendes

Leo/Gemini: Gina Rodriguez, Robert Redford, Anna Kendrick, Taylor Schilling

Leo/Libra: Helen Mirren

Virgo/Cancer: Rupert Grint, Katerina Graham

Virgo/Scorpio: John Ritter

Libra/Leo: Cardi B, Anne Rice

Scorpio/Virgo: Joni Mitchell

Sagittarius/Aquarius: Joseph Conrad, Bill Nye

Capricorn/Scorpio: Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull

Capricorn/Pisces: LL Cool J, Naveen Andrews, Dave Bautista

Aquarius/Sagittarius: John Belushi

Aquarius/Aries: Gertrude Stein, Portia de Rossi, Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Omarosa Manigault

Pisces/Aries: George Washington

Pisces/Taurus: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Carrie Underwood, Quincy Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thora Birch, Jordan Peele, Chelsea Peretti, Ruth Ginsburg

General discussion of Sun-Chiron aspects.

What is a sextile? A sextile is an astrological aspect of 60 degrees. 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.

The sextile is considered harmonious and easy. The planets forming a sextile are playing nicely with one another, making benefits and opportunities more likely. Sextiles hold the potential for an intelligent use of the energies of the involved planets and points.

Alternate meanings of this aspect:

Sun sextile Chiron:  This aspect links outer self (Sun) with growth (Chiron) in a constructive way. You can develop versatile talents; this aspect makes it easy for you to grow in different directions. You are a very thorough and capable person, but watch out that success does not go to your head. If your ego gets over-large, this aspect ensures that you will experience a correction. Your father was a benefit to you and somehow raised your consciousness about health matters.

You could have a psychological complex driving you to become successful as a result of early problems or physical limitations. But your passion is for more than just you — you want to see everyone have healthy opportunities. You would make a good therapist. You are good at finding and combating the causes of sickness, whether personal or societal. You can be a skillful negotiator when it comes to accomplishing your objectives. You have patience and persistence. Your vision reaches far and wide.

— Sample interpretation from the Personal Path report.

Sun sextile Chiron: Feeling good comes more easily to you than most people. As soon as you get jammed up with some sort of emotional challenge, you navigate your way through healing straits with relative ease. Once you consciously focus on the difficulty lying before you, a method of releasing the difficulty instantly appears. Then you just do it. Others see you as being amazingly resilient, optimistic and willing to cope with any adversity.

Ideas about clearing issues, conflicts and feelings of abandonment slip into your mind with the ease of a gentle breeze. Trust your healing instincts. Check in with yourself to see if claims made about your nature by others resonate as truth within. If yes, work with them. If no, forget about them. Show others the same methods of fortifying ego and spirit you might take for granted within yourself. Spread the good you intimately know about yourself to be perfectly true.

— Sample interpretation from the Galactic report.

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Interpretations written by Annie unless otherwise noted.