⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Venus sesquiquadrate North Node
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ☊
What these two are about together
What is wanted and the direction of development. The tradition associates this pair with relationships and values that carry a person forward, and with the difference between what is attractive and what is good for them.
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
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Venus and North Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition North 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 Venus and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.