∠ Semi-square
Venus semi-square North Node
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
- Angle
- 45°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ☊
What these two are about together
What is wanted and the direction of development. The tradition associates this pair with relationships and values that carry a person forward, and with the difference between what is attractive and what is good for 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
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Venus and North Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus 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 Venus and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.