---
key: sun-square-venus
title: Sun square Venus
type: aspect
planet: sun
partner: venus
aspect: square
answer: >
  Sun square Venus cannot form. Venus never travels more than about forty-eight degrees from the Sun, so a ninety-degree square between them does not occur in any birth chart.
pull: natal-reading
---

## The hook

You are looking for the aspect that explains why love and self-respect pull against each other. Keep looking. This is not it.

## What it looks like in a life

In a real chart Venus is always near your Sun: same sign, or one or two signs over. The friction people are hunting for usually comes from Venus square the Moon, Saturn, or Pluto, or from a Venus that wants what your Sun refuses to admit it wants. A Capricorn Sun with an Aquarius Venus feels like a square and is not one.

## The gift

Ruling this out saves you from an explanation you cannot use. The real aspect is findable, and it will tell you something true.

## The friction

Chart generators sometimes print this with absurd orbs. If a report gives you Sun square Venus, check the degrees and treat the rest of that report carefully.

## The esoteric layer

Traditional astrology read Venus by her distance from the Sun and by whether she rose as morning or evening star, never by angles her orbit makes impossible.

## Where this goes

The aspects Venus actually makes are where your pattern in love is written. A full natal reading reads them in order.