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CrazyAquarian
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posted June 14, 2011 10:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrazyAquarian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Could ya'll tell me your semi squares and how you feel they affect you?
How do you feel they differ from the square?

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Coffee
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posted June 15, 2011 01:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Coffee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The semi-square, to my knowledge, doesn't exist as an aspect.

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CrazyAquarian
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posted June 15, 2011 07:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrazyAquarian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
what?!

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CrazyAquarian
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posted June 19, 2011 10:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrazyAquarian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
O_O

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Taineberry
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posted June 20, 2011 07:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Taineberry     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Semi Square aspect is one where the two planets are 45 degrees apart. Most people say that this means it is a “weak square”, but I don’t find that very helpful. My take on it is that it indicates the area of your life where you repress your energy, because you feel that “your way” of doing it is being blocked by external strictures or prohibitions. You can’t see a way forward and you won’t budge from your viewpoint, so you end up withholding this energy inside you which becomes very frustrating, and also causes a whole lot of self doubt.. It is a constant source of irritation to you until do some profound self-investigation and work out that you need to consciously develop a more flexible approach as there is always a way round things if you persist and a patient in investigating new paths.

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posted June 20, 2011 09:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for AriesSun     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Taineberry:
The Semi Square aspect is one where the two planets are 45 degrees apart. Most people say that this means it is a “weak square”, but I don’t find that very helpful. My take on it is that it indicates the area of your life where you repress your energy, because you feel that “your way” of doing it is being blocked by external strictures or prohibitions. You can’t see a way forward and you won’t budge from your viewpoint, so you end up withholding this energy inside you which becomes very frustrating, and also causes a whole lot of self doubt.. It is a constant source of irritation to you until do some profound self-investigation and work out that you need to consciously develop a more flexible approach as there is always a way round things if you persist and a patient in investigating new paths.

I agree with that.
i think all that resistance comes from "outside" or actually from authorities when saturn is doing semi squares to some of my personal planets

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CrazyAquarian
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posted June 20, 2011 10:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrazyAquarian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
OK so it is real then
No one want to explain how it works in their chart?

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posted June 21, 2011 02:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Taineberry     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't really have any semisquares (though I have a mesmerising quantity of full blown squares) in my chart. However,a friend of mine who has mercury semi-square Jupiter/Uranus often manages to upset other people when she comes out and says exactly what she thinks ( even though it is often amazingly insightful and intelligent), because her delivery of the message tends to not be very diplomatic. So, in a misguided attempt to keep the peace she often represses this impulse and prefers to “tell people what they want to hear”. This also does not always have the desired effect, as it comes across to others as either as patronizing or sarcastic or downright duplicitous. My friend insists that this is “the only way” to deal with stupid people, but she also ends up feeling irritated and frustrated with them. Deep down, she really just wants to be able to let rip with what she has to say, even embellish and stretch things a bit for added effect – and engage with others with sharp intelligence and wit (a good argument is fun for her), but it is not easy when her big, unique ideas and opinions about things mostly end up bringing her big trouble with other people!

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posted June 26, 2011 03:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrazyAquarian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Really no one else?

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Coffee
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posted June 26, 2011 06:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Coffee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I only do aspects of 30 degrees each, which represents the equal signs (tropical) and equal houses (whole sign)

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posted June 26, 2011 07:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mochai     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have venus semisquare sun/uranus and mars semisquare neptune/merc. It makes a ton of sense in my chart and they all fit pretty well with my personality.

I don't know how to explain them. I just always saw them like a lesser expression of the square. The definitions for them fit.

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posted June 27, 2011 03:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrazyAquarian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Found these descriptions
Make sense to others?
quote:
A semi-square can have a stronger impact than a square if the orb is much closer and it is approaching rather than separating.

An article:

A semisquare reveals an area of inflexibility. The semisquare is a 45° angle (4° “orb” or less), which is exactly half of the square aspect at 90°.

There may be obstacles that are standing in your way, thereby keeping you from changing and adapting to new or different situations. And you want to do it “this” way, not “that” way. Talk about irritating! Just when it seems you have it all figured out and then this “thing” blocks your path and tries to keep you from moving forward. Well maybe, just maybe, you are supposed to be doing it “that” way.

More openness and flexibility is needed here.

Ah, do not be bothered by the irritation. The semisquare is just teaching you persistence and patience. There is “always” another approach to bypass the roadblock. In other words, there is always more than one way to go to the grocery store.


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I doubt a semi-square is stronger than a square by a long stretch. A semi-square indicates tension and challenge and some resistance. Like the square but weaker, it represents the first difficulties onthe road and it will and it will depend on the overcoming or not of those difficulties, which work more on the mental and astral plane than on the physical – so on our thinking and feeling – , whether the tendency of character will become a trait or no. This aspect brings us opportunities which , however, end in disappointment. When used constructively, there is motivation for moving forward and/or shedding outworn situations that hinder forward progress. When the energy becomes stuck or uncontrolled, there can be a compulsive, obsessive or stubborn edge to it. When a transiting planet does a semi-square, the aspec can indicate decisions and choices that need to be made, thus creating a turning point in a situation. Not so with a square aspect which brings an obstacle and a hurdle that WILL need to be overcome.

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posted May 10, 2016 02:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Poupoupidou     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by CrazyAquarian:
How do you feel [semi squares] differ from the square?

Squares tend to maximize and demultiply the energies of both planets. It's the cluster f... aspect, the traffic jams, the permanent source of activity. Semi-squares reveals a lack of integration of energies. A refusal to merge and make one. It's the energy of hatching, what was one is now a bird and a shell, forever...

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diamondbaby
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posted May 10, 2016 03:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for diamondbaby     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
They don't affect me at all.

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Kannon McAfee
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posted May 10, 2016 06:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kannon McAfee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The semi-square of 45° is a well documented aspect that shows up quite a bit in progressed charts on dates of various types of events in a person's life. It is also valid as a natal aspect, what I call a mini-square - same dynamic, just less intense.

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Kannon McAfee
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posted May 10, 2016 08:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kannon McAfee     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Semi-squares are far more likely to be felt (transits) when made by a slower moving outer planet like Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto -- especially when to a more personal natal point like Asc, Moon, or Sun.

But they are no more significant than any of the other wider angled 15-degree aspects like the 75°, 105°, or 135°, or 165°.

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posted May 10, 2016 10:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Seimei     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Coffee:
The semi-square, to my knowledge, doesn't exist as an aspect.

lmao, smh

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