∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square Venus
What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♀
What these two are about together
Need and value. What comforts you and what you find beautiful, which the tradition treats as one of the gentlest pairs in the chart.
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
What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Moon and Venus at other angles
- Moon conjunction VenusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile VenusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile VenusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile VenusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square VenusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine VenusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate VenusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx VenusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition VenusDirectly 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 Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.