∠ 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

Famous charts with sun semi-square jupiter

365 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.

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Sun and Jupiter at other angles

Sun and Jupiter 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 Sun and Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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