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☉︎ □︎ ☊︎ Sun square North Node
The square holds the Sun and the North Node at cross purposes, and that friction is meant to get the ball rolling rather than to sit still.
In this pairing the Sun carries selfhood, confidence, and creative vitality, while the North Node carries growth and the work of this life. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
Here warmth and purpose and a pull toward the unfamiliar 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.
As a transit, the Sun moving to square the North Node 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 North Node (the path being learned), held 90° apart.
Right now
Sun and North Node currently stand about 166.4° apart, 76.4° away from an exact square. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact squares
| 25 May 2026 | most recent |
| 17 November 2026 | upcoming |
| 6 May 2027 | upcoming |
| 30 October 2027 | upcoming |
| 17 April 2028 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
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Where these two stand today
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In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about squares · all aspects.