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♂︎ □︎ ☊︎ Mars square North Node

Mars square the North Node is friction with a purpose: the will to act and the direction of growth pull at right angles and press for a decision.

In this pairing Mars carries drive, courage, and appetite, while the North Node carries growth and the work of this life. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.

The square keeps them at cross purposes: Mars wants a target while the North Node wants a step forward, until a choice is made. Handled well, that pressure is the engine that gets things done.

Timing matters. When Mars forms this square to the North Node 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 North Node (the path being learned), held 90° apart.

Right now

Mars and North Node currently stand about 137.0° apart, 47.0° 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

• North Node square Mars
• Mars conjunction North Node
• Mars sextile North Node
• Mars trine North Node
• Mars opposition North Node

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• North Node in Aquarius

Related squares

• Jupiter square North Node
• Saturn square North Node
• Uranus square North Node

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