Q Quintile
Moon quintile Venus
Ease with affection. Read as somebody who receives care as naturally as they give it, which is rarer than it sounds.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ♀
What these two are about together
Need and value. What comforts you and what you find beautiful, which the tradition treats as one of the gentlest pairs in the chart.
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
Ease with affection. Read as somebody who receives care as naturally as they give it, which is rarer than it sounds.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Famous charts with moon quintile venus
355 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.
- Abraham Lincoln16th U.S. President · 1.11° orb
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposer · 0.35° orb
- Charles DarwinNaturalist · 1.21° orb · approximate
- Steve JobsTechnology executive · 0.64° orb · approximate
- Oskar SchindlerIndustrialist · 1.78° orb · approximate
- Victor HugoNovelist & poet · 1.63° orb · approximate
- Nathaniel HawthorneNovelist · 0.85° orb · approximate
- George Washington1st U.S. President · 0.52° orb · approximate
- Neville ChamberlainBritish Prime Minister · 1.43° orb · approximate
- Steve McQueenActor · 0.74° orb · approximate
- Emil ZátopekDistance runner · 1.18° orb · approximate
- Gus GrissomAstronaut · 0.55° orb · approximate
- Isambard Kingdom BrunelEngineer · 1.2° orb · approximate
- Søren KierkegaardPhilosopher & theologian · 0.39° orb · approximate
- Pope John XXIIIPope · 1.34° orb · approximate
- Dylan ThomasPoet · 0.62° orb · approximate
- Carl Maria von WeberComposer · 1.36° orb · approximate
- Charles IvesComposer · 0.23° orb · approximate
- Enrico CarusoTenor · 1.6° orb · approximate
- Barry WhiteSinger & producer · 1.82° orb · approximate
- Eddie CochranMusician · 1.08° orb · approximate
- Miriam MakebaSinger & activist · 1.96° orb · approximate
- Charlie WattsDrummer · 0.06° orb · approximate
- Jack BruceMusician · 0.32° orb · approximate
22 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.
Moon and Venus at other angles
- Moon conjunction VenusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile VenusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square VenusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile VenusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon square VenusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine VenusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate VenusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx VenusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition VenusDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Moon and Venus 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 Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.
