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♂︎ □︎ ♆︎ Mars square Neptune

Mars square Neptune is friction with a purpose: the will to act and the pull toward the boundless pull at right angles and press for a decision.

Mars pushes forward where there is desire, courage, and conflict; Neptune dissolves the edges where there is dreams, compassion, and dissolution. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

The square keeps them at cross purposes: Mars wants a target while Neptune wants something to merge with, until a choice is made. Handled well, that pressure is the engine that gets things done.

Pushed in a good direction, it yields courage that is well aimed sharpened by compassion and vision without a wall around them. Pushed badly, it hardens into force for its own sake set against a fog that hides what is real.

Timing matters. When Mars forms this square to Neptune in the sky, it is a temporary weather system that comes and goes. Held in a natal chart, it describes something the person carries for life.

Here the square joins Mars (drive and desire) with Neptune (dreams and dissolution), held 90° apart.

Right now

Mars and Neptune currently stand about 102.5° apart, 12.5° away from an exact square. Watch it move on the live clock.

When: past and next exact squares

Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.

More on this pair

• Neptune square Mars
• Mars conjunction Neptune
• Mars sextile Neptune
• Mars trine Neptune
• Mars opposition Neptune

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• Neptune in Aries

Related squares

• Mercury square Neptune
• Venus square Neptune
• Jupiter square Neptune

In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about squares · all aspects.