□ Square
Moon square Venus
What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♀
What these two are about together
Need and value. What comforts you and what you find beautiful, which the tradition treats as one of the gentlest pairs in the chart.
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
What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Moon and Venus at other angles
- Moon conjunction VenusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile VenusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square VenusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile VenusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile VenusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon trine VenusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate VenusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx VenusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition VenusDirectly 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 Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.