Q Quintile
Mars quintile North Node
Acting on it is straightforward. Associated with effort that lands where it is useful.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♂ ☊
What these two are about together
Action and the direction of development. Associated with whether a person actually moves toward what they are supposed to be growing into, which the tradition treats as the whole practical question of the nodes.
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 is straightforward. Associated with effort that lands where it is useful.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Mars and North Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.