⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune
The self is obscured. Traditionally read as confusion about direction, as a tendency to idealise people who do not deserve it, and as vitality that comes and goes for no clear reason.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♆
What these two are about together
Identity and dissolution. What happens to a sense of self when the edges are not firm, which the tradition reads as both the artistic gift and the central difficulty of this pair.
What a sesquiquadrate does
A sesquiquadrate is a square plus a semi-square, and it is read as the same family of friction arriving later and more awkwardly. The tradition associates it with tension that surfaces after the fact: the consequence of something already done, rather than the pressure to do it.
How it reads
The self is obscured. Traditionally read as confusion about direction, as a tendency to idealise people who do not deserve it, and as vitality that comes and goes for no clear reason.
In practice
Read as an aftermath. Where a square describes an argument in progress, a sesquiquadrate more often describes the clearing up, and the discovery that the matter was not as settled as it looked.
What to watch for
Treating it as a square. It is genuinely weaker, and a chart read as though every minor hard aspect carried full weight becomes a list of problems nobody recognises.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly
Sun and Neptune at other angles
- Sun conjunction NeptuneTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile NeptuneThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square NeptuneForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile NeptuneSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile NeptuneSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square NeptuneNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine NeptuneA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun quincunx NeptuneA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition NeptuneDirectly 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 Neptune actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.