⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Venus sesquiquadrate Black Moon Lilith
Being wanted and being unedited conflict. Read as the difficulty of being loved without being tidied, which is the whole of this aspect.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚸
What these two are about together
Worth and what will not be made acceptable, which the tradition treats as the central Lilith pairing and also the one most often written about badly.
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
Being wanted and being unedited conflict. Read as the difficulty of being loved without being tidied, which is the whole of this aspect.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Venus and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Venus conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.