□ Square
Mars 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
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- 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 square does
A square is the aspect of friction, and the tradition is unusually consistent that it is also the aspect of development. The two planets are in signs that share a quality but nothing else, so they want the same tempo and completely different things. That is uncomfortable, and it is also what forces the matter to be dealt with rather than left.
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 demand rather than misfortune. A square is usually where a person has had to build something, precisely because it did not come easily.
What to watch for
Repetition. Squares tend to describe the argument a person keeps having, in different clothes, until something is actually resolved.
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 semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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 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.