□ Square
Mercury square Chiron
Saying it is the hard part. Read as a persistent sense of being misunderstood or of not having the words, rather than as any deficiency in having them.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚷
What these two are about together
Voice and the sore place. Associated with the difference between what a person can say and what they can be heard saying, and with speech as the thing that either healed or hurt.
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
Saying it is the hard part. Read as a persistent sense of being misunderstood or of not having the words, rather than as any deficiency in having them.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mercury and Chiron at other angles
- Mercury conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury 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 Mercury and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.