Sextile

Sixty degrees is the smallest of Ptolemy's four configurations, two signs apart, or a sixth of the circle. In Ashmand's 1822 translation he calls it harmonious because it joins signs of the same kind, all masculine or all feminine in his sorting, labels that here describe alternating places on the circle. Lilly 1659 is lukewarm and rates it only moderately good.

Later writers kept it in the good column and multiplied the company around it. Zadkiel 1852 adds semi-sextiles and quintiles, Sepharial 1920 adds aspects of 45 and 135 degrees, and Alan Leo, before 1917, adds the semisextile and the quincunx, so the number of aspects is a matter of choice. This calculator uses the five in this section and allows 5 degrees here, the narrowest of its margins.