Sun semi-square (and sesquiquadrate) Saturn
When the Sun forms a semi-square with Saturn or Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn
This subtle aspect in your chart is considered a minor aspect, adding a layer of reticence, practicality, caution, and reluctance to your personality. You are very often aware of what might go wrong, which gives you a sense that you should plan and strategize. Feeling prepared and secure is important to you. In fact, you can be talented at risk assessment. As well, imagining possible adverse outcomes keeps your expectations in check.
There’s some realism and perhaps sarcasm or cynicism to your nature. This aspect also adds some self-consciousness, guardedness, and reserve to your personality. While it may keep you from fully letting your hair down, it also helps you maintain a sense of balance and control, preventing you from going over the top.
Examples of Charts with Sun semi-square or sesquiquadrature Saturn in the Birth Chart
Famous people with the Sun semisquare Saturn in their natal charts include Joan Crawford, John Steinbeck, Glen Campbell, Kathy Bates, Jackson Browne, Annie Lennox, Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Zosia Mamet, Kylie Minogue, Jonah Hill, Orson Welles, Peter Dinklage, Roch Voisine, Russell Crowe, Meat Loaf, Emma Stone, Ellen DeGeneres, Frank Ocean, Ryan Gosling, LeBron James, Celeste Ng, Tyga, Madison Beer, and Sadie Sink.
Famous people with the Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn in their natal charts include Shirley Temple, Henry David Thoreau, Bette Midler, Claire Danes, Hedy Lamarr, Danny DeVito, Donald Sutherland, Angela Davis, Ted Danson, January Jones, Tamar Braxton, Jay Park, David Byrne, Channing Tatum, Carrie Underwood, Jimmy Kimmel, Terry Fox, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Alternate interpretations:
Sun semi-square Saturn: Feelings of personal inadequacy, inhibitions, and self-doubt often plague you. You have a cautious, careful, realistic attitude toward life and are highly responsible and disciplined with regard to your obligations and duties. You tend to work and struggle more than you need to, and to take yourself too seriously. — Interpretation sample from the Merlin report.
Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn: Sun/Saturn contacts bring focus and discipline to your self-expressive and assertive drives. Saturn prudently regulates the vitality and life force of the Sun. There is a serious cast to your personality, plus great ambition, discretion, determination, and organizational ability. You have a highly developed sense of duty, tremendous powers of concentration, and a capacity for hard work and persistent effort.
Some with this aspect become loners who prefer to work privately or alone, or pursue careers that require years of study and depth of thought. Saturn gives a desire to build and construct, to establish order, to lay firm foundations, and to control or govern responsibly in a moral and cautious manner.
There is frequently a knack for business, organization, and management. Because Saturn signifies rules, regulations, codes of conduct, structure, and disciplined thinking, you might consider a career involving government, administration, business, banking, the law, teaching, science, computer programming, mathematics, accounting, or library science.
This aspect often indicates self-made individuals who achieve success and recognition as a result of their own efforts. You may go through a long period of apprenticeship with low wages on your way to eventual success. Hardships early on, or difficulties with one of your parents, may spur you to great accomplishments as an adult, but you may need to exercise caution against callous, ruthless, or calculating behavior toward others.
— Interpretation from the Career report.
Sun semi-square Saturn: You tend to give away too much power to the men in your life with your Sun in semisquare aspect to Saturn, and every time you do, you feel regret. The problem is experience: over time, you learn to alter your fear of being in control and gradually accept more and more responsibility for yourself and your happiness. As you do this, you will take a more measured approach to dealing with the men in your life.
You may feel that you have to prove yourself in some way, and that’s okay as long the motivation rests in your need to satisfy yourself. But if you’re swallowing your personal pride just to please some man, you still have work to do. — Interpretation from the Astrology Profile for Women report.
Sun sesquiquadrate Saturn in the Progressions chart: This a difficult and trying three-year trend in which the vitality and energy level are lower than usual. You will have to safeguard your health by taking necessary precautions. Protect yourself against colds which are likely to linger on. You will have to maintain a positive outlook on life to avoid bouts of mental depression that may occur from time to time. If you feel a lack of interest in social affairs, then use that extra time wisely. Decide what it is that you always wanted to accomplish but never had the time. Then organize your life in a constructive manner around this project and work diligently until it’s completed.
You will triumphantly emerge from this difficult influence, with a profound project that would not have been possible before. Be realistic in your goals, and accept the fact that progress in personal and business affairs will be confronted by hindrances and delays. There may be an estrangement with a friend. — Interpretation from the Life Progressions report, adapted.
Note: The semisquare aspect is a 45-degree angle between planets or points, and a sesquiquadrate/sesqui-square aspect is a 135-degree angle between planets or points. These are considered minor challenging aspects and are also labeled “minor squares.”
General discussion of Sun-Saturn aspects.
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Interpretations written by Annie unless otherwise noted.
