∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square Chiron
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚷
What these two are about together
Feeling and the sore place. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with early care: what was missing, what was given inconsistently, and what a person does about it afterwards.
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
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Moon and Chiron at other angles
- Moon conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon 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 Moon and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.