Moon – Venus Semisquare

(Transit. Moon → Natal Venus)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Moon semisquare: Do you always remember, when talking to a person, that before you is a microcosm? This is a difficult aspect; most often it indicates an inner brokenness which the person tries in every way to hide from themselves, since their core inner feeling tells them that everything is exactly as it should be with them, while other people and external circumstances are somehow not quite right—but in any case, that’s their personal issue. In reality, everything is the opposite, but the Moon hardly admits its flaws. In the areas of the Planet, the person will have limited and rigid perception programs that ruthlessly filter out and ignore everything that does not fit within them, yet the person won’t notice this, believing they see and feel perfectly everything that is necessary, and may even feel superior to others whose perception is truly broader. The discomfort lies in the fact that beyond their clear perception, at a low level of aspect processing, the person won’t notice anything, including subtle nuances and half-tones, and will instinctively strive to prove to the world that these subtleties don’t actually exist. Often this aspect indicates formal childhood relationships with the mother, who carried out her maternal functions and duties according to a fixed checklist, mentally ticking off items as they were completed. Here, (rather difficult) processing leads to the ability to create a warm, cozy home for others, anticipating their every need—but this requires first overcoming the natural selfishness and emotional hardness in the Planet’s spheres. Venus semisquare: Flowers of evil, upon close inspection, usually turn out to be artificial. This aspect brings hidden rigidity and schematic behavior in social relationships within the Planet’s spheres. Outwardly, the person may appear entirely adequate in social interactions, but the excess of inner formalism and internally predefined acceptable social situations will be sensed by close people, while the person themselves will be far less aware of it. This manifests especially clearly in love, where the person will face one (rarely two) recurring scenario—a kind of matrix into which fate and the person themselves will keep imprinting life: their own and their partners’—until this scenario becomes utterly unbearable, since it ultimately fails to provide satisfying emotional experiences, even though it often proceeds with apparent confidence. Yet attempts to forcibly break the natural course of events either fail or lead to disaster; processing lies in moving away from solving personal problems, especially emotional and social dissatisfaction, and shifting focus toward the problems of others. In doing so, the person will discover that what seems obvious and dull to them often turns out to be interesting, useful, and necessary to someone else—if they don’t insist on it. Social clarity is a very valuable quality, provided the person manages to make it an indirect rather than primary content of communication, and places it in service of higher goals, and above all, in service to other people.