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♂︎ □︎ ☋︎ Mars square South Node

Mars square the South Node is friction with a purpose: the will to act and the familiar past pull at right angles and press for a decision.

Mars governs drive, courage, and appetite; the South Node governs inherited ease and old habit. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.

The square keeps them at cross purposes: Mars wants a target while the South Node wants to be released, 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 South 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 South Node (the familiar past), held 90° apart.

Right now

Mars and South Node currently stand about 43.0° 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

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

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• South Node in Leo

Related squares

• Saturn square South Node
• Uranus square South Node
• Neptune square South Node

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