□ Square
Moon 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
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- 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 square does
A square is the aspect of friction, and the tradition is unusually consistent that it is also the aspect of development. The two planets are in signs that share a quality but nothing else, so they want the same tempo and completely different things. That is uncomfortable, and it is also what forces the matter to be dealt with rather than left.
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 demand rather than misfortune. A square is usually where a person has had to build something, precisely because it did not come easily.
What to watch for
Repetition. Squares tend to describe the argument a person keeps having, in different clothes, until something is actually resolved.
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 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.