□ Square
Moon square Chiron
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚷
What these two are about together
Feeling and the sore place. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with early care: what was missing, what was given inconsistently, and what a person does about it afterwards.
What a square does
A square is the aspect of friction, and the tradition is unusually consistent that it is also the aspect of development. The two planets are in signs that share a quality but nothing else, so they want the same tempo and completely different things. That is uncomfortable, and it is also what forces the matter to be dealt with rather than left.
How it reads
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
In practice
Read as demand rather than misfortune. A square is usually where a person has had to build something, precisely because it did not come easily.
What to watch for
Repetition. Squares tend to describe the argument a person keeps having, in different clothes, until something is actually resolved.
The two planets
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Moon and Chiron at other angles
- Moon conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition ChironDirectly 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 Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.