⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Moon sesquiquadrate Black Moon Lilith
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚸
What these two are about together
Feeling and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the feelings a person learned early not to show, and with what happens to them afterwards.
What a sesquiquadrate does
A sesquiquadrate is a square plus a semi-square, and it is read as the same family of friction arriving later and more awkwardly. The tradition associates it with tension that surfaces after the fact: the consequence of something already done, rather than the pressure to do it.
How it reads
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
In practice
Read as an aftermath. Where a square describes an argument in progress, a sesquiquadrate more often describes the clearing up, and the discovery that the matter was not as settled as it looked.
What to watch for
Treating it as a square. It is genuinely weaker, and a chart read as though every minor hard aspect carried full weight becomes a list of problems nobody recognises.
The two planets
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Moon and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Moon conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.