∠ Semi-square
Mercury semi-square Chiron
Saying it is the hard part. Read as a persistent sense of being misunderstood or of not having the words, rather than as any deficiency in having them.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚷
What these two are about together
Voice and the sore place. Associated with the difference between what a person can say and what they can be heard saying, and with speech as the thing that either healed or hurt.
What a semi-square does
A semi-square is exactly half a square, and the tradition reads it as the same kind of friction at a smaller scale. Where a square describes a conflict that has to be dealt with, a semi-square describes the sort of persistent low-grade annoyance that never quite forces the issue and never quite goes away either.
How it reads
Saying it is the hard part. Read as a persistent sense of being misunderstood or of not having the words, rather than as any deficiency in having them.
In practice
Read as irritation rather than demand. Kepler took the minor hard aspects seriously and much of the tradition since has treated them as real but secondary, which is the reading this site uses.
What to watch for
Accumulation. One semi-square is a footnote. Several of them to the same planet is the tradition's picture of somebody worn down by things too small to name.
The two planets
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mercury and Chiron at other angles
- Mercury conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition ChironDirectly 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 Mercury and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.