Mars
Drive, appetite and how conflict gets handled.90° · orb 8° · 3,190 searches a month
Mars Square Moon
Read as friction — and present in 8.89% of random pairings, which is the part usually left out.
Checked against chance
How often this happens anyway
Exact angle
90°
Orb allowed
±8°
Odds by chance
8.89% — about 1 pairing in 11
Mars per sign
0.16 years
Moon per sign
hours
Searched
3,190/mo · rank 4 of 382
Both planets here move quickly — Mars and Moon change position between people born weeks apart. That makes this aspect genuinely specific to the two charts rather than to a generation, which is true of only 59.9% of the combinations people look up.
What these two planets are doing
Moon
The emotional reflex, formed before language.At 90° the question this pairing raises is whether wanting things together produces heat or friction, set against whether comfort is instinctive or has to be negotiated. A square puts those two demands at odds rather than in agreement, which is why this aspect is read as work rather than ease.
Mars moves 28.1 times slower than moon, so the faster one sets how long the exact angle holds.
If the birth time is wrong
This aspect survives 13.3 hours of error
0.6°
per hour — how far Moon moves, the
faster of the two and therefore the one that decides.
8°
the orb allowed for square. Beyond it the
aspect is no longer counted at all.
Robust
Even a badly remembered birth time leaves this one standing.
Worked out from how far the faster point travels per hour against the orb allowed. Why birth-time accuracy decides which aspects to trust →
Mars and Moon at other angles
The same two planets meet at 6 angles that people search for. Same functions, different relationship between them.
Searched about as often
Rank 4 of 382 by demand.