□ Square
Sun square 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
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- 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 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
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 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
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 trine NeptuneA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate NeptuneA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- 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.