∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square Uranus
Security and freedom fight. Traditionally read as an unstable early home, as difficulty staying, and as leaving before being left.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♅
What these two are about together
Need and disruption. Whether emotional life is settled or repeatedly rearranged, often by the person themselves.
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
Security and freedom fight. Traditionally read as an unstable early home, as difficulty staying, and as leaving before being left.
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
Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn
Moon and Uranus at other angles
- Moon conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile UranusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile UranusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine UranusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx UranusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition UranusDirectly 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 Uranus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.