□ Square
Moon square Pluto
Need turns into compulsion. Traditionally read as jealousy, as emotional crises that keep recurring until something is genuinely faced, and as a difficult or overwhelming mother figure.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♇
What these two are about together
Need and power. Emotional intensity at its most extreme, and the tradition's clearest statement about what people do when they are afraid of losing something.
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 turns into compulsion. Traditionally read as jealousy, as emotional crises that keep recurring until something is genuinely faced, and as a difficult or overwhelming mother figure.
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
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Moon and Pluto at other angles
- Moon conjunction PlutoTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx PlutoA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition PlutoDirectly 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 Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.