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☉︎ □︎ ♂︎ Sun square Mars
The Sun square Mars is friction with a purpose: the core self and the will to act pull at right angles and press for a decision.
The Sun shines where there is identity, vitality, and the will to shine; Mars pushes forward where there is desire, courage, and conflict. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.
Here warmth and purpose and heat and nerve keep getting in each other's way. The tension is uncomfortable on purpose; it is there to force growth rather than to be resolved once and filed away.
At its best the friction produces a steady, generous sense of who you are tempered by courage that is well aimed. Under strain it slides toward pride that has to be the center colliding with force for its own sake, the same energy turned against itself.
As a transit, the Sun moving to square Mars marks a passing window, hours to days for the Moon, months or years for the slow outer bodies, when the theme is live and worth watching. In a birth chart the same aspect is a standing feature of character rather than a single moment.
Here the square joins Sun (identity and vitality) with Mars (drive and desire), held 90° apart.
Right now
Sun and Mars currently stand about 56.6° apart, 33.4° away from an exact square. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact squares
| 21 April 2025 | most recent |
| 19 November 2026 | upcoming |
| 25 May 2027 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Where these two stand today
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In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about squares · all aspects.