Sesquiquadrate Sun – Venus
(Transit. Sun → Natal Venus)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Sesquiquadrate Sun: A person must fulfill God’s will, yet still thinks it is their own. This aspect makes a person’s will in the spheres of the planet imperfect, sometimes too crude an instrument. Their initiatives often turn out to be too straightforward (if the Sun is in Pisces or Cancer, the person will, accordingly, be too openly and often clumsily avoiding responsibility and hiding in their shell). If inclined toward self-observation, they may sometimes feel that their will is mixed with something alien, deliberately crude and rough. A similar effect is observed in imperative external circumstances, which do not directly oppose or openly obstruct (a sesquiquadrate is not a square), but are unpleasantly rigid and often actually destroy the most interesting, promising, or attractive moments for the person in the spheres of the planet. If external conditions are favorable, an internal demon suddenly awakens, harshly roughening things, which the person cannot handle at the level of their lower will. Here, the work involves forming ideals and incorporating higher will and higher direction, as well as carefully analyzing the subconscious programs governing the interaction of the principles of will and the planet. Somewhere here (hints should be sought in situations of simultaneous activity of the houses occupied by the Sun and the planet), the ego is deeply entrenched, buried in evolutionary levels much lower than the person themselves. Processing requires awareness and transformation of this program, after which the person gains the ability to clearly and subtly exert volitional control in the spheres of the planet. At a low level, this aspect manifests in dictators who have a rigid apparatus of external suppression and their victims.
Sesquiquadrate Venus: Knowing how one should and should not behave is good, but it is even better to understand what to do in other cases. For this, at a low level, a person will exhibit social and aesthetic dogmatism and rigid perception based on inflexible attitudes. Such people turn discoveries in art into a method that often amounts to murder; in social programs, such rigidity often provides the strength to subjugate the masses, but creative people will shun it, and the person may develop a Salieri complex. For example, a sesquiquadrate between Venus and Uranus at a low level can produce dogmatic aesthetic embodiment of brilliant ideas, which often die as a result, though the person themselves rarely sees it. Processing grants remarkable mastery in art related to the spheres of the planet or fine and perfect control over social issues—essentially working within large egregores using tools that initially seemed inconvenient and unsuitable: brushes, paints, newspaper and magazine pages. However, this requires tracking and acknowledging one’s poor mastery of artistic and social management tools and, most importantly, recognizing the imperfection and limitations of one’s vision, which can be psychologically difficult. It is much easier to project one’s vision onto others, proving through examples that the subtleties they see are illusory and insignificant.
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Sesquiquadrate Moon: In callous people, the heart is encased in iron; in sensitive people, it is wrapped in plastic. This aspect gives a general internal clumsiness and roughness of perception, as well as reflexive skills, in the spheres of the planet. For example, with a sesquiquadrate between Mars and the Moon, at a low level, a person best understands the language of teeth-gritting and is inclined to express themselves the same way, including in their inner life—so this person will be very rough with themselves, able to persecute, corner, and reshape without anesthesia, and so on. In the spheres of the planet at a low level, this person may irritate others with what seems to them a lack of feeling and a tendency to straightforwardly ignore anything they dislike, focusing only on their (usually crude) needs and satisfying them with ironclad determination. The person themselves usually does not notice any of this but may (far from always!) feel the negative attitude of others and retreat into their egoism, considering their complaints unjust, unfounded, and generally incomprehensible. Here, processing is difficult and requires a strong desire to grow and overcome inner roughness; it is very hard to bring this roughness into consciousness, as the subconscious censor here is crude (as are the programs themselves) and often simply erases large chunks, leaving glaring blind spots in memory and perception (the person says: “I don’t remember that, no matter how you try… and I somehow didn’t notice this at all—it’s strange”). Processing here grants the ability to clearly and subtly remotely control the corresponding fragments of the subconscious in the spheres of the planet.
Sesquiquadrate Venus: Knowing how one should and should not behave is good, but it is even better to understand what to do in other cases. For this, at a low level, a person will exhibit social and aesthetic dogmatism and rigid perception based on inflexible attitudes. Such people turn discoveries in art into a method that often amounts to murder; in social programs, such rigidity often provides the strength to subjugate the masses, but creative people will shun it, and the person may develop a Salieri complex. For example, a sesquiquadrate between Venus and Uranus at a low level can produce dogmatic aesthetic embodiment of brilliant ideas, which often die as a result, though the person themselves rarely sees it. Processing grants remarkable mastery in art related to the spheres of the planet or fine and perfect control over social issues—essentially working within large egregores using tools that initially seemed inconvenient and unsuitable: brushes, paints, newspaper and magazine pages. However, this requires tracking and acknowledging one’s poor mastery of artistic and social management tools and, most importantly, recognizing the imperfection and limitations of one’s vision, which can be psychologically difficult. It is much easier to project one’s vision onto others, proving through examples that the subtleties they see are illusory and insignificant.
