□ Square

Moon square Mars

Need and drive collide. The traditional reading is irritability, defensiveness and reacting before understanding, often traced to a home where anger was either everywhere or forbidden.

Angle
90°
Orb used
±5°
Type
Hard
Bodies
☽ ♂

What these two are about together

Need and drive. How quickly feeling becomes action, and what a person does with anger.

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

Need and drive collide. The traditional reading is irritability, defensiveness and reacting before understanding, often traced to a home where anger was either everywhere or forbidden.

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

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Famous charts with moon square mars

856 of the 13,000 documented charts on this site have it. The 24 best known are below. Every one is computed from that figure’s own birth data, with the source of the birth time stated on their page.

20 of these are marked approximate: the figure has a birth date and no birth time, and the Moon moves far enough in a day that the hour could change whether the aspect holds. The rest do not depend on the hour at all.

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Moon and Mars at other angles

Moon and Mars also have a midpoint: the halfway point between them, read as a third place in the chart rather than as an angle between two.

Find this in your own chart

A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Moon and Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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