You inspire each other’s ambitions and bring out each other’s confidence.
A sextile means one person’s Sun and the other person’s Mars are about 60 degrees apart. The app counts it as harmonious. What the labels mean.
The good kind of nudge
Where a stronger Sun and Mars contact can feel like being pushed, this one feels more like being backed. The Mars person tends to offer practical encouragement: “You could ask for the raise. Want to practice?” The Sun person takes that as a vote of confidence and tends to give it back, noticing what the Mars person is good at and saying so.
The result is that both people often walk a little taller around each other. It isn’t dramatic. You might just realize that you’ve become someone who takes more chances than you did last year.
Better in motion
This contact does its best work when there’s something to do. Hiking, climbing, cooking a meal for twelve, moving apartments without an argument. You may find you talk more easily side by side than face to face, and that a hard subject goes better on a walk.
Friendly competition usually suits you too. A running tally of board game wins, a bet about who finishes the book first. With a sextile it stays light, and nobody’s worth is riding on it.
Don’t wait to be asked
Sextiles need a little effort to get going. If you only ever see each other on the sofa, this one can stay asleep, and you might conclude there’s not much between you. Propose something slightly ambitious and see what happens.
Watch one other thing: a pair that encourages each other can also egg each other on. If one of you has doubts about a big decision, make sure there’s room to say so without being called timid. Being brave together works better when either of you can still say “wait”.