Moon square South Node

What these two are about together

Comfort and what is already known, which the tradition treats as the most self-reinforcing pair in the chart: both halves are the familiar.

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

The old comfort no longer settles anything. Read as a habit outliving its usefulness rather than as a loss.

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

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Moon and South Node at other angles

• Moon conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Moon semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Moon sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Moon quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Moon trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Moon sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Moon quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Moon opposition South NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis