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