□ Square
Mars square Black Moon Lilith
Wanting and refusing collide. Read as anger arriving late and disproportionately, which the tradition treats as pressure rather than temper.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚸
What these two are about together
Assertion and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with anger that was not permitted, and with what a person does with it once it is.
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 and refusing collide. Read as anger arriving late and disproportionately, which the tradition treats as pressure rather than temper.
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
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mars and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mars conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.