∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square Neptune
Need becomes fog. Traditionally read as idealising the wrong people, as escapism, and as a longing for something that cannot be named and therefore cannot be met.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♆
What these two are about together
Need and dissolution. The most permeable pair in the chart, and the one the tradition most associates with both compassion and self-deception.
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
Need becomes fog. Traditionally read as idealising the wrong people, as escapism, and as a longing for something that cannot be named and therefore cannot be met.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly
Moon and Neptune at other angles
- Moon conjunction NeptuneTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile NeptuneThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile NeptuneSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile NeptuneSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square NeptuneNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine NeptuneA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate NeptuneA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx NeptuneA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition NeptuneDirectly 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 Moon and Neptune actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.