∠ Semi-square
Moon semi-square North Node
Comfort pulls one way and growth the other. Read as the specific difficulty of having to be unsettled to get anywhere, rather than as anything going wrong.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ☊
What these two are about together
Comfort and the direction of development, which the tradition treats as one of the more demanding pairs, because the Moon is what already feels safe and the North Node is by definition unfamiliar.
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
Comfort pulls one way and growth the other. Read as the specific difficulty of having to be unsettled to get anywhere, rather than as anything going wrong.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Moon and North Node at other angles
- Moon conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon 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 Moon and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.