⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Moon sesquiquadrate 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
- 135°
- 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 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
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 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
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 semi-square NeptuneForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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 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.