□ Square
Mars square South Node
The reflex misfires. Read as the familiar response producing a result it did not used to, which the tradition treats as information.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ☋
What these two are about together
Action and what is already known. Associated with the reflex a person reaches for under pressure, and with whether that reflex still serves them.
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 reflex misfires. Read as the familiar response producing a result it did not used to, which the tradition treats as information.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Mars and South Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars 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 Mars and South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.