Q Quintile
Mars quintile Chiron
Acting on it works. Associated with people who use the difficult thing as a reason to do something rather than as a reason to stop.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚷
What these two are about together
Assertion and the sore place. Associated with what happens to somebody who was punished for wanting things, and with the particular difficulty of acting on your own behalf.
What a quintile does
The quintile divides the zodiac by five rather than by two, three, four or six, which puts it outside the classical scheme entirely. Kepler introduced it, and the tradition since has associated it with a particular kind of ability: a talent that is developed rather than given, and that tends to be applied to making something. It is the aspect most often described as the signature of craft.
How it reads
Acting on it works. Associated with people who use the difficult thing as a reason to do something rather than as a reason to stop.
In practice
Read as aptitude rather than ease. A trine describes something that costs nothing. A quintile describes something a person has repeatedly chosen to work at, often without being able to say why.
What to watch for
Claiming too much for it. The quintile has the thinnest traditional record of anything in this table, and honest practice treats it as suggestive rather than established.
The two planets
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mars and Chiron at other angles
- Mars conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars opposition ChironDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Mars and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.