∠ Semi-square

Sun semi-square Venus

The hardest angle these two can make is the semisquare, since Venus never separates far enough from the Sun to square or oppose it. Expect a mild version of the fusion reading, with taste and self-worth slightly out of step rather than genuinely at odds.

Angle
45°
Orb used
±2°
Type
Hard
Bodies
☉ ♀

What these two are about together

Identity and what you find beautiful or valuable. Like Mercury, Venus stays close to the Sun, so the range of possible angles is limited and the conjunction dominates.

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 hardest angle these two can make is the semisquare, since Venus never separates far enough from the Sun to square or oppose it. Expect a mild version of the fusion reading, with taste and self-worth slightly out of step rather than genuinely at odds.

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

Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful

Famous charts with sun semi-square venus

3,067 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 Venus at other angles

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

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