Moon Sextile Pluto: Finding Strength in the Emotional Depths

With the Moon sextile Pluto, two signs apart, you can face deep feelings without being swamped by them. When you choose to look inward, you turn setbacks into growth. This page starts from what the Moon governs (emotions, security and inner needs) and what Pluto governs (deep power, crisis and rebirth), then looks at how the sextile makes the two interact, how it tends to show up in everyday life, its strengths and blind spots, and some advice for it.

Moon Sextile Pluto at a glance

Percentages are our own calculation from 8,401 charts of people born in Taipei between 1960 and 2005 with random birth times, using the same orbs as our chart calculator.

The core meaning of Moon Sextile Pluto

The Moon stands for your emotions and sense of security; Pluto stands for deep transformation, tenacity, and the power to see through appearances. The sextile keeps them at a friendly distance, so Pluto’s intensity does not press down until you cannot breathe. What it offers here is depth. Your feelings run a bit deeper than most people’s, you look past the surface, and you tend to give a second thought to emotional details others skip over. When something painful happens, you are able to get quiet and look at what is really going on.

People with the conjunction or the square get pushed along by powerful emotions whether they like it or not. With the sextile, the choice is yours: you decide whether to go deep. This is an aspect that has to be switched on. If you steer clear of heavy subjects, it barely shows. If you are willing to sort yourself out seriously when a setback comes, by reading psychology, having long talks with someone you trust, or writing down your thoughts, you will find you are good at changing, and that after each low point you know more clearly what you want.

How it feels inside

You have a fair amount of command over your emotions. When you are hurting, you do not pretend everything is fine, and you do not sink completely either. Most of the time you can give yourself a while to feel it and then find the crux of the matter. The darker side of human nature does not shock you much; you know everyone is complicated, yourself included, and that makes you more honest. It is just that when life is smooth, you may not bother to look inward, and you only start sorting things out once they have piled up to a certain point.

In love and relationships

In relationships you are someone people can trust. When a friend tells you something hard to say, you do not gasp and you do not spread it around, so you often end up as the person others confide in. In love you want real depth of exchange. Just going out and having fun together is not quite enough; you want to know what your partner truly cares about. You can stay beside a partner through a low stretch, and you are willing to talk seriously when something goes wrong. Remember to keep things light now and then. Not every conversation has to dig to the bottom.

At work and in getting things done

At work you are suited to tasks that call for untangling things thread by thread. Analyzing a problem, finding the real sticking point in a process, putting things back in order after chaos: you can do all of this, and you are not afraid to take over a mess someone else left behind. You judge motives well, so in negotiation or management you can tell what the other side really wants. To make this ability stand out, volunteer for difficult projects that need an overhaul. The pressure will not crush you, and you will grow surer of yourself with each one.

Strengths

• Feelings with depth: Your feelings are fine-grained and deep, yet they do not lead you around. You can stay clear-headed while hurting and slowly work your way to the heart of the problem.
• Safe to confide in: You can hear heavy things and keep a secret. People come to you at their most fragile because they know you will not be quick to judge.
• Good at regrouping: After a setback you review and adjust on your own initiative, turn a bad experience into self-knowledge, and handle the next one better.

Blind spots

• Needs a push to move: This capacity for change has to be switched on by you. When nothing is going wrong, it is easy to leave it on the shelf and not think much about it.
• Thinking too heavily: You are used to digging deep, and sometimes you read complicated motives into simple little things, which wears out both you and the other person.
• Keeping it to yourself: You figure you can handle things on your own, so you seldom ask for help, and the people around you may not know what you are going through.

Advice for Moon Sextile Pluto

Every so often, take stock of your inner life. Around your birthday or at the change of seasons, pick a quiet afternoon and write down what has mattered most to you lately, the feelings you cannot seem to put down, and the habits you would like to release. You do not have to wait until something goes wrong to look back. The power of this aspect lies in your willingness to face things on your own initiative, and the more often you use it, the more calmly you will meet life’s turning points.

What to keep in mind when reading this aspect

1. The tighter the orb, the more it matters. In our calculations, only 13.6% of all major aspects are within 1° of exact, and 41.2% are within 3°. If your Moon sextile Pluto is tight, the traits on this page will be more noticeable; if it is close to the 7° limit, they will be much fainter.

2. Applying and separating. An aspect is applying when the two planets are moving toward the exact angle and separating once they have passed it. Tradition holds that an applying aspect is still taking shape and acts more strongly. Our chart calculator marks which one you have.

3. Watch for out-of-sign aspects. Two planets in sextile are usually two signs apart, in compatible elements (fire with air, earth with water), but an aspect is measured by actual distance. In our calculations, 9.5% of sextiles do not match the usual sign relationship (one planet late in a sign, the other early in another). The nature of the aspect is still there; it just shows up in a less typical way.

4. Moon aspects need a birth time. The Moon moves fast. In our calculations, when the birth time is unknown and the chart is cast for noon, the Moon’s aspects differ from the real ones in 66.5% of charts. If you only know your birthday, treat this aspect as provisional.

5. Then look at each planet’s own placement. The signs the Moon and Pluto are in decide how each one expresses itself; see Planets in the Signs. If either planet has other aspects, read them together. For a complete reading, use the In-Depth Chart Reading.

Other aspects between the Moon and Pluto

Conjunction · Sextile · Square · Trine · Opposition

The sextile with other planets

Moon: Sun sextile Moon, Moon sextile Mercury, Moon sextile Venus, Moon sextile Mars, Moon sextile Jupiter, Moon sextile Saturn, Moon sextile Uranus, Moon sextile Neptune.

Pluto: Sun sextile Pluto, Mercury sextile Pluto, Venus sextile Pluto, Mars sextile Pluto, Jupiter sextile Pluto, Saturn sextile Pluto, Uranus sextile Pluto, Neptune sextile Pluto.

All Moon aspects · All Pluto aspects · Planet aspects overview