Venus semi-square South Node

What these two are about together

What is wanted and what is already known. The tradition associates this with the type a person keeps returning to, in relationships and in taste.

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 old preference stops satisfying. Read as a pattern becoming visible, which is usually uncomfortable and usually useful.

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

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Venus and South Node at other angles

• Venus conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Venus semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Venus sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Venus quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Venus square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Venus trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Venus sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Venus quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Venus opposition South NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis