☽ Moon ⚼ Sesquiquadrate ♂ Mars

135° · minor aspect · tense · default orb ±2°

At 135 degrees the Moon and Mars form a sesquiquadrate, binding the significator of body and temperament to the lesser malefic through the minor hard angle of the eighth harmonic. The tradition reads Mars as heat, iron, and severance, the Moon as moisture, habit, and the populace, and their tense contacts as irritability of constitution and temper: sources name quarrels in the household, hasty reaction, and, in the medical correspondences, complaints of heat afflicting the fluid and rhythmic functions the Moon governs. The minor angle delivers these themes in lowered volume, recurrent friction rather than open rupture.

Traditional reading

Sect doctrine, predating the aspect, is often brought to bear: Mars belongs to the nocturnal sect the Moon leads, and Hellenistic authors held him better behaved by night, a mitigation some modern traditionalists extend to minor contacts. There is also a standing antipathy, Mars finding his fall in Cancer, the Moon's domicile, which older writers cite for the pair's mutual discomfort. The Moon is always the applying body, perfecting the angle within hours. Ebertin's cosmobiology, attentive to the eighth-harmonic family, filed Moon-Mars under impulsiveness and domestic strain.