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The other marks on an almanac page or an astrological chart. Three of them are aspects — the angular separation between two bodies, at zero, sixty and a hundred and eighty degrees — and the sextile's six strokes are literally the count in its own definition. The two lunar quarters are mirror images, and which way the crescent opens is the whole distinction, reversed between hemispheres.
A small circle with a short stroke rising from its right side.
Two small circles joined by a straight line.
Six short strokes radiating from a common centre.
A crescent opening to the left, marking the waxing half moon.
A crescent opening to the right, marking the waning half moon.
A small disc trailing a set of diverging lines.