Q Quintile

Moon quintile Mercury

Feelings articulate easily. Associated with good listeners, with people who explain difficult things kindly, and with an instinctive rather than trained understanding of others.

Angle
72°
Orb used
±2°
Type
Soft
Bodies
☽ ☿

What these two are about together

Feeling and thinking. Whether what you feel can be put into words, and whether what you say matches what is going on underneath.

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

Feelings articulate easily. Associated with good listeners, with people who explain difficult things kindly, and with an instinctive rather than trained understanding of others.

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

Mercury: Mind, language and how you process

Famous charts with moon quintile mercury

342 of the 13,000 documented charts on this site have it. The 24 best known are below. Every one is computed from that figure’s own birth data, with the source of the birth time stated on their page.

24 of these are marked approximate: the figure has a birth date and no birth time, and the Moon moves far enough in a day that the hour could change whether the aspect holds. The rest do not depend on the hour at all.

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Moon and Mercury at other angles

Moon and Mercury also have a midpoint: the halfway point between them, read as a third place in the chart rather than as an angle between two.

Find this in your own chart

A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Moon and Mercury actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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