⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn
Identity meets a rule that will not move. The traditional reading is self-doubt, delay and a difficult or absent authority figure, and the traditional consolation is that what is built under this aspect tends to last.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♄
What these two are about together
Identity and limit. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with authority, with fathers, and with the difference between what you are and what you have proved.
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
Identity meets a rule that will not move. The traditional reading is self-doubt, delay and a difficult or absent authority figure, and the traditional consolation is that what is built under this aspect tends to last.
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
Saturn: Limit, structure and what has to be earned
Sun and Saturn at other angles
- Sun conjunction SaturnTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile SaturnThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square SaturnForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile SaturnSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile SaturnSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square SaturnNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine SaturnA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun quincunx SaturnA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition SaturnDirectly 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 Saturn actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.