Aspects
Ascendant Sesquiquadrate Moon
Tension accumulates between your feelings and your outward self, building toward release. The Moon sesquiquadrate your Ascendant is a subtle but persistent hard aspect: emotional pressure that gathers behind your manner, surfacing now and then as moodiness, an emotional outburst, or a sense that your feelings must be let out somehow. It is the more insistent cousin of the semi-square. Handled blindly, it can make you erupt at awkward moments or wear your agitation on your sleeve. Handled with awareness, the charge becomes energy for genuine emotional expression and creativity. The lifelong work is to give your feelings a deliberate outlet rather than letting them leak out as moodiness in how you come across.
Lean in — Give your feelings a deliberate outlet before they erupt.
Watch for — Let emotional pressure leak out as moodiness at bad moments.
- moon
- ascendant
- sesquiquadrate
- drive
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Moon's sesquiquadrate to the Ascendant as a defining statement about how the emotional nature meets the persona and the outer self.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of the Moon's sesquiquadrate to the Ascendant as a core feature of the birth chart's inner life.
- Carter, The Astrological Aspects (1930)Carter sets out the classic natal character of the Moon's sesquiquadrate to the Ascendant in the native's nature.