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