∠ Semi-square
Mercury semi-square South Node
The familiar answer stops fitting. Read as the moment expertise has to be revised, which the tradition regards as productive.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☿ ☋
What these two are about together
Thinking and what is already known. Associated with fluency in something learned long ago, and with the difference between knowing a subject and still being curious about it.
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 familiar answer stops fitting. Read as the moment expertise has to be revised, which the tradition regards as productive.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Mercury and South Node at other angles
- Mercury conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition South 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 Mercury and South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.