⚼ Sesquiquadrate
Venus sesquiquadrate Chiron
Being valued is where it catches. Read as difficulty accepting affection rather than difficulty attracting it, and traditionally the more painful of the two to live with.
- Angle
- 135°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚷
What these two are about together
Worth and the sore place. The tradition reads this as the aspect most concerned with whether a person believes they are wanted, and with what they do about believing they are not.
What a sesquiquadrate does
A sesquiquadrate is a square plus a semi-square, and it is read as the same family of friction arriving later and more awkwardly. The tradition associates it with tension that surfaces after the fact: the consequence of something already done, rather than the pressure to do it.
How it reads
Being valued is where it catches. Read as difficulty accepting affection rather than difficulty attracting it, and traditionally the more painful of the two to live with.
In practice
Read as an aftermath. Where a square describes an argument in progress, a sesquiquadrate more often describes the clearing up, and the discovery that the matter was not as settled as it looked.
What to watch for
Treating it as a square. It is genuinely weaker, and a chart read as though every minor hard aspect carried full weight becomes a list of problems nobody recognises.
The two planets
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Venus and Chiron at other angles
- Venus conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition ChironDirectly 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 Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.