∠ Semi-square
Sun semi-square Jupiter
Belief in your own scale meets a limit. Read as over-promising, over-extending and the specific discomfort of having been confident in public and wrong.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♃
What these two are about together
Identity and expansion. How much room you believe you are entitled to take up, and what happens when that belief meets the world.
What a semi-square does
A semi-square is exactly half a square, and the tradition reads it as the same kind of friction at a smaller scale. Where a square describes a conflict that has to be dealt with, a semi-square describes the sort of persistent low-grade annoyance that never quite forces the issue and never quite goes away either.
How it reads
Belief in your own scale meets a limit. Read as over-promising, over-extending and the specific discomfort of having been confident in public and wrong.
In practice
Read as irritation rather than demand. Kepler took the minor hard aspects seriously and much of the tradition since has treated them as real but secondary, which is the reading this site uses.
What to watch for
Accumulation. One semi-square is a footnote. Several of them to the same planet is the tradition's picture of somebody worn down by things too small to name.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Sun and Jupiter at other angles
- Sun conjunction JupiterTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile JupiterSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square JupiterNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine JupiterA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition JupiterDirectly 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 Sun and Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.