□ Square
Venus square Mars
Attraction and drive disagree. Traditionally read as wanting what fights back, as a pattern of pursuit and withdrawal, and as friction between affection and appetite.
- Angle
- 90°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ♂
What these two are about together
Attraction and drive. The classical pairing for desire, and for the difference between wanting something and going after it.
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
Attraction and drive disagree. Traditionally read as wanting what fights back, as a pattern of pursuit and withdrawal, and as friction between affection and appetite.
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
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Venus and Mars at other angles
- Venus conjunction MarsTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile MarsSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus trine MarsA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition MarsDirectly 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 Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.