Q Quintile
Moon quintile Chiron
Comfort and the injury cooperate. Associated with people who look after others well because they know the shape of it from the inside, without being pulled under by it.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚷
What these two are about together
Feeling and the sore place. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with early care: what was missing, what was given inconsistently, and what a person does about it afterwards.
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
Comfort and the injury cooperate. Associated with people who look after others well because they know the shape of it from the inside, without being pulled under by it.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Moon and Chiron at other angles
- Moon conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon 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 Moon and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.