□ Square
Sun square South Node
Identity and the old habit argue. Read as the useful kind of discomfort, and as the point at which a person stops doing the thing they are known for.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ☋
What these two are about together
The self and what is already known. The South Node is read as the familiar competence, so this is about identity resting on something a person is already good at.
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
Identity and the old habit argue. Read as the useful kind of discomfort, and as the point at which a person stops doing the thing they are known for.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Sun and South Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition South 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.