□ Square
Sun square Pluto
Identity in a power struggle. Traditionally the aspect of confrontation with authority, of compulsion that overrides judgement, and of periods where the person feels they must be entirely remade.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♇
What these two are about together
Identity and power. The most intense pairing the Sun makes, and the one the tradition reads as being about control, survival and what a person will not let go of.
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
Identity in a power struggle. Traditionally the aspect of confrontation with authority, of compulsion that overrides judgement, and of periods where the person feels they must be entirely remade.
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
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Sun and Pluto at other angles
- Sun conjunction PlutoTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx PlutoA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun 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 Sun and Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.