⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Sun sesquiquadrate North Node
What you are and what you are heading toward disagree. Read as a demand rather than a misfortune: the identity has to give something up for the direction to hold.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ☊
What these two are about together
The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.
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
What you are and what you are heading toward disagree. Read as a demand rather than a misfortune: the identity has to give something up for the direction to hold.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Sun and North Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.