∠ Semi-square
Sun semi-square Black Moon Lilith
The self and the refusal argue. Read as the cost of being palatable, and as a recurring choice between approval and accuracy.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚸
What these two are about together
The self and what will not be made acceptable. Lilith is read as the part of a person that refuses to be smoothed over, which the tradition distinguishes firmly from the part that is wrong with them.
What a semi-square does
A semi-square is exactly half a square, and the tradition reads it as the same kind of friction at a smaller scale. Where a square describes a conflict that has to be dealt with, a semi-square describes the sort of persistent low-grade annoyance that never quite forces the issue and never quite goes away either.
How it reads
The self and the refusal argue. Read as the cost of being palatable, and as a recurring choice between approval and accuracy.
In practice
Read as irritation rather than demand. Kepler took the minor hard aspects seriously and much of the tradition since has treated them as real but secondary, which is the reading this site uses.
What to watch for
Accumulation. One semi-square is a footnote. Several of them to the same planet is the tradition's picture of somebody worn down by things too small to name.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Sun and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Sun conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Sun and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.