□ Square
Venus square South Node
The old preference stops satisfying. Read as a pattern becoming visible, which is usually uncomfortable and usually useful.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ☋
What these two are about together
What is wanted and what is already known. The tradition associates this with the type a person keeps returning to, in relationships and in taste.
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
The old preference stops satisfying. Read as a pattern becoming visible, which is usually uncomfortable and usually useful.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Venus and South Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus 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 Venus and South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.