□ Square
Sun square Jupiter
Belief in your own scale meets a limit. Read as over-promising, over-extending and the specific discomfort of having been confident in public and wrong.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♃
What these two are about together
Identity and expansion. How much room you believe you are entitled to take up, and what happens when that belief meets the world.
What a square does
A square is the aspect of friction, and the tradition is unusually consistent that it is also the aspect of development. The two planets are in signs that share a quality but nothing else, so they want the same tempo and completely different things. That is uncomfortable, and it is also what forces the matter to be dealt with rather than left.
How it reads
Belief in your own scale meets a limit. Read as over-promising, over-extending and the specific discomfort of having been confident in public and wrong.
In practice
Read as demand rather than misfortune. A square is usually where a person has had to build something, precisely because it did not come easily.
What to watch for
Repetition. Squares tend to describe the argument a person keeps having, in different clothes, until something is actually resolved.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Sun and Jupiter at other angles
- Sun conjunction JupiterTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square JupiterForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile JupiterSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun trine JupiterA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition JupiterDirectly 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 Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.