∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square Black Moon Lilith
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚸
What these two are about together
Feeling and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the feelings a person learned early not to show, and with what happens to them 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
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
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
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Moon and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Moon conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon 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 Moon and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.