Dear friends,
I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to start this thread to gather some thoughts and see your thoughts, insights and experiences with the T-Square formation from an evolutionary point of view.
I have found and read this post that Rad posted back in 2021 with great information (see link below)
https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,1725.msg81505.html#msg81505
From my understanding T Squares relate to creative stress relative to behavioral development and this is linked to the phases the aspects within the T-Square are in, and for synthesizing purposes we would look at:
Opposition (Gibbous vs Full)
Square (Crescent, 1st Quarter, Disseminating, Last Quarter)
And we would also look to the modality of the signs, as well as the natural house modality for more details on the archetypal description
Do any of you have any other details on the archetypal meaning of the T-Square in general, what the function of each of the planets would be. I started wondering if the planet which is squared by the opposition is similar in resistance patterns that a skipped step squared the nodal axis would be – since a skipped step is technically a T-Square with the nodes.
Just looking for some additional insights, thoughts, and experiences with it if possible that can be shared! (Also if you know of any other links in the forum that speak to this, please kindly share here as well if you can!)
Thank you all so much!
Natasha
To echo what Lou has said above, this has been my experience too. I see the apex planet of a t-square as the kind of “middle ground” that is being defined/brought into awareness via the polarisation of the planets in opposition, as a means of bringing balance.
In respect to the opposition, I have also found it helpful to look at the faster moving planet as being “the manifestation of intention” - the intention reflected by the slower moving planet. So in other words, what are the consequences of the original intention, and how are they manifesting in the individual’s life? The thing with the opposition though is that there is the way the individual experiences and perceives the dynamics from their own egocentric perspective, and then how the soul, reflected back to them, through the external environment and its various relationships, experiences it - which as is suggested by the opposition, can be in contrast to and confrontation with one another.
So this is where the term “skipped step” begins to make more sense, because the balancing or “middle ground” that the squaring planets implies, has been in some way “skipped over” in the development of the intention from the new phase to full phase, leading to an imbalance between the egocentric orientation and the soul orientation. In a sense, the ego has forgotten it is merely the vehicle for manifesting the intention, and that they are not the “whole thing”. Their experience/perception is just a part of it, one side of it. So the skipped step/squaring planet helps us to go back and remember, or recover that.