Q Quintile
Mercury quintile Black Moon Lilith
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚸
What these two are about together
Voice and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the thing a person says that other people wish they had not.
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
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mercury and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mercury conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Mercury and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.