□ Square
Venus square 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
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- 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 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
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 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
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 trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- 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.