∠ Semi-square
Sun semi-square Uranus
The urge to break out arrives at the wrong moment. Read as restlessness, abrupt reversals of direction, and a pattern of leaving things just before they mature.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♅
What these two are about together
Identity and disruption. Whether being yourself is a settled matter or something that keeps breaking and reforming.
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
The urge to break out arrives at the wrong moment. Read as restlessness, abrupt reversals of direction, and a pattern of leaving things just before they mature.
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
Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn
Sun and Uranus at other angles
- Sun conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile UranusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile UranusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine UranusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx UranusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition UranusDirectly 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 Uranus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.