∠ Semi-square
Venus semi-square Chiron
Being valued is where it catches. Read as difficulty accepting affection rather than difficulty attracting it, and traditionally the more painful of the two to live with.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚷
What these two are about together
Worth and the sore place. The tradition reads this as the aspect most concerned with whether a person believes they are wanted, and with what they do about believing they are not.
What a semi-square does
A semi-square is exactly half a square, and the tradition reads it as the same kind of friction at a smaller scale. Where a square describes a conflict that has to be dealt with, a semi-square describes the sort of persistent low-grade annoyance that never quite forces the issue and never quite goes away either.
How it reads
Being valued is where it catches. Read as difficulty accepting affection rather than difficulty attracting it, and traditionally the more painful of the two to live with.
In practice
Read as irritation rather than demand. Kepler took the minor hard aspects seriously and much of the tradition since has treated them as real but secondary, which is the reading this site uses.
What to watch for
Accumulation. One semi-square is a footnote. Several of them to the same planet is the tradition's picture of somebody worn down by things too small to name.
The two planets
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Venus and Chiron at other angles
- Venus conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition ChironDirectly 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 Venus and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.