⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Mars sesquiquadrate North Node
The push and the direction fight. Read as energy going into the familiar thing instead, and as frustration that is informative rather than obstructive.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ☊
What these two are about together
Action and the direction of development. Associated with whether a person actually moves toward what they are supposed to be growing into, which the tradition treats as the whole practical question of the nodes.
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
The push and the direction fight. Read as energy going into the familiar thing instead, and as frustration that is informative rather than obstructive.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Mars and North Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars 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 Mars and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.