⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Mars sesquiquadrate Black Moon Lilith
Wanting and refusing collide. Read as anger arriving late and disproportionately, which the tradition treats as pressure rather than temper.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚸
What these two are about together
Assertion and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with anger that was not permitted, and with what a person does with it once it is.
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
Wanting and refusing collide. Read as anger arriving late and disproportionately, which the tradition treats as pressure rather than temper.
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
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mars and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mars conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars 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 Mars and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.