∠ Semi-square
Mars semi-square North Node
The push and the direction fight. Read as energy going into the familiar thing instead, and as frustration that is informative rather than obstructive.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ☊
What these two are about together
Action and the direction of development. Associated with whether a person actually moves toward what they are supposed to be growing into, which the tradition treats as the whole practical question of the nodes.
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
The push and the direction fight. Read as energy going into the familiar thing instead, and as frustration that is informative rather than obstructive.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Mars and North Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.