⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Moon sesquiquadrate 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
- 135°
- 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 sesquiquadrate does
A sesquiquadrate is a square plus a semi-square, and it is read as the same family of friction arriving later and more awkwardly. The tradition associates it with tension that surfaces after the fact: the consequence of something already done, rather than the pressure to do it.
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 an aftermath. Where a square describes an argument in progress, a sesquiquadrate more often describes the clearing up, and the discovery that the matter was not as settled as it looked.
What to watch for
Treating it as a square. It is genuinely weaker, and a chart read as though every minor hard aspect carried full weight becomes a list of problems nobody recognises.
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 semi-square VenusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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 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.