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Six short strokes radiating from a common centre.
Also known as: Sextile
Two bodies 60 degrees apart — a sixth of the circle, which is where the name comes from. The glyph's six strokes are the count, not a decoration.
Marks a sextile: two celestial bodies 60 degrees apart in celestial longitude, one sixth of the full circle.
Encoded at U+26B9 in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block.
The six strokes correspond to the six sixty-degree divisions of the circle, so the glyph states its own definition.
Six short straight strokes of equal length radiating evenly from a single central point, like a six-spoked star.
Both are aspects: marks for the angular separation between two bodies.