Mars
Drive, appetite and how conflict gets handled.60° · orb 6° · 410 searches a month
Mars Sextile Venus
Read as ease — and present in 6.67% of random pairings, which is the part usually left out.
Checked against chance
How often this happens anyway
Exact angle
60°
Orb allowed
±6°
Odds by chance
6.67% — about 1 pairing in 15
Mars per sign
0.16 years
Venus per sign
hours
Searched
410/mo · rank 66 of 382
Both planets here move quickly — Mars and Venus change position between people born weeks apart. That makes this aspect genuinely specific to the two charts rather than to a generation, which is true of only 59.9% of the combinations people look up.
What these two planets are doing
Venus
What someone finds attractive and how they show affection.At 60° the question this pairing raises is whether wanting things together produces heat or friction, set against whether the same gestures read as love to both. A sextile lets them reinforce each other, which is comfortable and, for the same reason, easy to stop noticing.
Mars moves 1.9 times slower than venus, so the faster one sets how long the exact angle holds.
If the birth time is wrong
This aspect survives 6.1 days of error
0.04°
per hour — how far Venus moves, the
faster of the two and therefore the one that decides.
6°
the orb allowed for sextile. Beyond it the
aspect is no longer counted at all.
Robust
Even a badly remembered birth time leaves this one standing.
Worked out from how far the faster point travels per hour against the orb allowed. Why birth-time accuracy decides which aspects to trust →
Mars and Venus at other angles
The same two planets meet at 5 angles that people search for. Same functions, different relationship between them.
Searched about as often
Rank 66 of 382 by demand.