□ 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
Moon and Mars at other angles
- Moon conjunction MarsTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile MarsSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon trine MarsA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition MarsDirectly 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 Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.