□ Square
Sun square North Node
What you are and what you are heading toward disagree. Read as a demand rather than a misfortune: the identity has to give something up for the direction to hold.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ☊
What these two are about together
The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.
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 you are and what you are heading toward disagree. Read as a demand rather than a misfortune: the identity has to give something up for the direction to hold.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Sun and North Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun 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 Sun and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.