∠ Semi-square
Sun semi-square Venus
Not possible: Venus never separates far enough from the Sun to square or oppose it. Where the two are close but not exact, expect the mildest version of the fusion reading.
- 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
Not possible: Venus never separates far enough from the Sun to square or oppose it. Where the two are close but not exact, expect the mildest version of the fusion reading.
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
Sun and Venus at other angles
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.