□ Square
Moon 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
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- 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 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
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 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
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 semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- 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 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.