□ Square
Moon square Mercury
What is felt and what is said pull apart. Read as anxiety, as talking oneself out of a valid instinct, and as the specific frustration of not being able to explain something that is perfectly clear internally.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ☿
What these two are about together
Feeling and thinking. Whether what you feel can be put into words, and whether what you say matches what is going on underneath.
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
What is felt and what is said pull apart. Read as anxiety, as talking oneself out of a valid instinct, and as the specific frustration of not being able to explain something that is perfectly clear internally.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Moon and Mercury at other angles
- Moon conjunction MercuryTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile MercuryThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square MercuryForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile MercurySixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile MercurySeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon trine MercuryA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate MercuryA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx MercuryA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition MercuryDirectly 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 Mercury actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.