Definition of sextile in English:
sextile
noun ˈsɛkstɪlˈsɛkstʌɪlˈsɛkstaɪl
mass nounAstrology An aspect of 60° (one sixth of a circle)
we find Jupiter in sextile to Neptune
Example sentencesExamples
- Tolkien's Sun sextiles Mars and Jupiter and makes a wide orb sextile to Uranus.
- If the birth was indeed after sunset, the Part of Fortune was in conjunction with the MC and in sextile to the Moon.
- The sign of the 2nd house is fixed and aspected from the sinister sextile of Jupiter.
- The positive aspects of trine and sextile are the areas where tension's resolution is found.
- Since Mercury is solar when matutine and lunar when vespertine, it should surely have different exaltations for the two phases, one in trine to Gemini and the other in sextile to Virgo.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin sextilis, from sextus 'sixth'.