Moon square Venus

Aspect · square · default orb 7°

In the natal chart the Moon signifies the principle of need and reception — feeling, instinct, the part of life that receives impressions and seeks comfort. The Venus signifies the principle of attraction and sweetness — preference, ornament, the part of life that gathers what it values close. When their longitudes form a tense ninety-degree friction across two signs of the same modality; the configuration imposes a structural demand that, if met, builds something durable, the chart carries the resulting configuration as a structural feature of its temperament — present in every house and angle that either body touches.

Need meets preference. Both are nocturnal lights of receptivity. Their contact describes the chart's gentle company — its homemaking, its taste in care, the climates it gathers around itself.

The square is the load-bearing aspect. The two bodies push against one another from signs of the same modality, and the friction between Moon and Venus cannot be resolved by retreat — only by structure. Classical sources do not treat the square as ill in itself; they treat it as the place where work is required, and where, work having been done, the chart's strongest forms are built.

The configuration is in orb when the angular separation between Moon and Venus falls within 7° of an exact square (Lilly's classical orb; Netra's Aspects view defaults match this and can be tightened in the chart preferences).