The sky on Saturday, January 23, 2027

Sun in	Aquarius
Moon in	Leo
Moon phase	Full Moon
Illumination	98%
Exact aspects	Mercury sextile Venus
Mercury retrograde	No

Mercury and Venus stand about sixty degrees apart today, a sextile, traditionally read as an easy, cooperative angle. The Moon is in Leo, near full and bright through most of the night.

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.