The Astrological Square, matches and interpreting :
- Symbolic number : 4
- Exact degree : 90°
- Orb in birth chart: 6-8°
- symbolic Planets : Mars (perhaps Pluto)
- Symbolic Signs : Aries – Scorpio
- Symbolic Houses : 1st House – 8th House – 10th House
An Expression of these planets, these signs, these houses, implies that the chart is marked by the principles of the Square below.
The Square : ACTION !!!
The Square represents the aspect of action ! It symbolizes quadrature, a phase of extreme tension in the cycle, a resistance to overcome, a step to climb. It is a major astrological aspect.
The Square compels us to overcome inertia, it forces self-affirmation in the process of Individuation, it pushes action, extroversion, it forces us to become a “locomotive” by the force of occurrences and often under tension.
The Square does not represent the analysis phase or preparation.
In this light, the Square represents a structuring and stabilizing activity of the cycle. Of course, it is synonymous with crisis, impulses and impulsiveness, conflicts, use of force, violence, trials, even aggression, war, destruction, and even Depression… But it allows us to surpass ourselves, to decide, to impose ourselves, to defend ourselves like others !
To this end, it is a vector of dynamism, courage, recklessness, resistance, passion, growth, power, expansion, conquest, domination, independence, mobility… all this at the same time !!!
With the Square, you MUST take the leap ! The training phase is over, you have to materialize your will NOW.
The Square appears in the quarters of the cycle, at the friction points turning halfway between Conjunction and Opposition, when the planetary energies have sufficiently progressed, and the process reaches a certain maturation.
Arriving at right angles, the planetary energies put themselves in an unreconcilable tension, the Square manifests itself subjectively and objectively, which can lead to an internal conflict, to physical or psychological struggles, and by ricochet to a self-pity… until the dominant energy “forces” the continuation of the cycle and breaks the angular tension (towards the Opposition or the Conjunction, towards a Trine or a Sextile).
For this reason, it is necessary to distinguish in the course of the cycle between the increasing Square (which accompanies the “creation” driven by the Conjunction) and the decreasing Square (which allows the integration of the struggle of the Opposition towards the evolution and the concretization of this same “creation”).
The Square should not be seen as a “negative aspect” (like any other Aspect for that matter), the Square is simply a part of the global cycle, a phase that must be integrated.
The Square can be “sublimated”, this discord, this struggle, can and must become a salutary combat, a springboard for global individual development (you don’t have to be a warrior or a soldier for that).
After all, what doesn’t kill makes you stronger, doesn’t it ?
Finally, let’s remember that the Square corresponds to an Opposition divided in 2 (180° – 90°) or to 2 Semi-Squares (45°).
Advice for living the Square :
Aspect of challenge, the Square can bring out the best in everyone… Sometimes you have to fasten your seatbelt, but it is often at this price that the future is built… The sooner you integrate this logic, the sooner you get out of the negative spirals.
It is really extremely important to find a conscious expression to each of the planets in quadrature, already by determining their respective strengths and weaknesses (which can crush the other), and then by leaving a maximum possibility for each one to express itself in turn, to avoid Complexes and frustrations.
In transits and actualizations, this aspect can know a first phase in relay with a semi-sextile and a sextile (which accompany the necessary change), then quickly afterwards with 2 semi-squares, materializing a form of spread, a very tense triangle, which has a load of imbalance and an important break. Another relay intervenes shortly afterwards in the cycle, mirroring the first one with this time a sextile and a semi-sextile, always with the aim of perpetuating the change…
The continuation always breaks down in the same way, alternating phases giving a harmonic impulse, trine/semi-sextile, then much more tense phases amidst progress, semi-square/sesqui-square, we find the operation to be more or less like the “combustion engine” of quadrature.
There is a last phase of release with a figure involving quincunx and sextile, before reaching the opposition, which reconstitutes an important T-square pattern, certainly the most important phase since it really brings to light certain things, and potentially requires a form of resolution of the basic tensions, it is a turning point in the cycle, a form of apogee…