The sky on Thursday, October 15, 2026

Sun in	Libra
Moon in	Sagittarius
Moon phase	Waxing Crescent
Illumination	22%
Exact aspects	Sun sextile Jupiter Mars trine Saturn
Mercury retrograde	No

Sun and Jupiter stand about sixty degrees apart today, a sextile, traditionally read as an easy, cooperative angle. Mars and Saturn stand about a hundred and twenty degrees apart today, a trine, traditionally read as the easiest of the major angles. The Moon is in Sagittarius, a young crescent growing in the evening sky.

What is a sextile in astrology?

A sextile is a sixty degree angle between two bodies, two signs apart, and it reads as an opportunity that has to be picked up rather than one that arrives on its own.

Sixty degrees is a third of the way to an opposition, and it connects signs of compatible elements: fire with air, earth with water. That is why the traditional reading is cooperative rather than tense.

The classical distinction between a sextile and a trine is effort. A trine tends to happen to you; a sextile is available if you do something with it.

That makes the sextile one of the easier aspects to use deliberately, and one of the easiest to sleep through.