∠ Semi-square
Mars semi-square Chiron
Wanting is where it catches. Read as hesitation about pursuing anything for yourself, and as anger that turns inward rather than outward.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚷
What these two are about together
Assertion and the sore place. Associated with what happens to somebody who was punished for wanting things, and with the particular difficulty of acting on your own behalf.
What a semi-square does
A semi-square is exactly half a square, and the tradition reads it as the same kind of friction at a smaller scale. Where a square describes a conflict that has to be dealt with, a semi-square describes the sort of persistent low-grade annoyance that never quite forces the issue and never quite goes away either.
How it reads
Wanting is where it catches. Read as hesitation about pursuing anything for yourself, and as anger that turns inward rather than outward.
In practice
Read as irritation rather than demand. Kepler took the minor hard aspects seriously and much of the tradition since has treated them as real but secondary, which is the reading this site uses.
What to watch for
Accumulation. One semi-square is a footnote. Several of them to the same planet is the tradition's picture of somebody worn down by things too small to name.
The two planets
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mars and Chiron at other angles
- Mars conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars opposition ChironDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Mars and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.