Sesquiquadrate Venus — Chiron
(Transit Venus → Natal Chiron)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Sesquiquadrate Venus: Knowing how one should and should not behave is good, but it is still important to understand what to do in other cases. For a person with this aspect operating on a low level, social and aesthetic dogmatism and rigid perception based on inflexible attitudes will be characteristic. Such people turn artistic discoveries into a method, which often amounts to killing the very thing they seek to create; in social programs, such rigidity often yields power capable of subduing the masses, but creative individuals will shun it, and the person may develop a Salieri complex. For example, a sesquiquadrate between Venus and Uranus on a low level can produce dogmatic aesthetic embodiment of brilliant ideas, which often perish as a result, though the person themselves rarely sees this.
Working through this aspect grants remarkable mastery in art related to the spheres governed by the planet, or refined and impeccable handling of social issues—essentially, working within large egregores using tools that initially seem awkward and ill-suited for the task: brushes, paints, newspaper and magazine pages. However, this requires recognizing and acknowledging one’s poor mastery of artistic and social management tools, and, most importantly, realizing the imperfection and limitations of one’s own perception—which can be psychologically difficult. It is far easier to project one’s vision onto others, proving through examples that the subtleties they perceive are illusory and insignificant.
Sesquiquadrate Chiron: If you lie on your side, the higher and lower principles become, respectively, the right and left. This aspect creates a tendency to use ideas and methods whose true essence remains inaccessible to the person, while their side effects are unclear and unpredictable. This is a dangerous aspect, especially for individuals with a strong Saturn, capable of prolonged focused study, with deep but narrow insight into a little-studied field. The sesquiquadrate of Chiron tempts one to crudely wield subtle tools, the power of which may prove unexpectedly overwhelming and turn the person from a subject into an object of karmic experimentation.
A typical example of the unworked-through sesquiquadrate of Chiron is seen in attempts to study and apply esoteric techniques in a materialistic-“scientific” manner—techniques that presuppose the ability to perceive the astral and causal planes and are traditionally transmitted from teacher to prepared student. Here, dilettantism quickly leads to subjugation to a rigid magical egregore and the loss of free will and independent thought (in pronounced cases, to desocialization and mental illness). Working through this aspect grants the possibility of breakthroughs into previously inaccessible spheres of the subtle world, and the ability to operate within them using strange yet entirely real methods and tools that the person perceives as physical, though their effects extend into the subtle planes.
