∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square Jupiter
Emotional overreach. Traditionally read as promising more than can be delivered, as comfort-seeking on a scale that becomes a problem, and as faith that outruns the evidence.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♃
What these two are about together
Need and expansion. How much is enough, emotionally, and what happens when the answer is more.
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
Emotional overreach. Traditionally read as promising more than can be delivered, as comfort-seeking on a scale that becomes a problem, and as faith that outruns the evidence.
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
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Moon and Jupiter at other angles
- Moon conjunction JupiterTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile JupiterSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square JupiterNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine JupiterA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition JupiterDirectly 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 Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.