⚻ Quincunx
Sun quincunx Black Moon Lilith
The self and the refusal argue. Read as the cost of being palatable, and as a recurring choice between approval and accuracy.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚸
What these two are about together
The self and what will not be made acceptable. Lilith is read as the part of a person that refuses to be smoothed over, which the tradition distinguishes firmly from the part that is wrong with them.
What a quincunx does
A quincunx, also called an inconjunct, puts two planets in signs that share nothing at all: not element, not quality, not polarity, and not even the awkward adjacency of the semi-sextile. The tradition is specific that this is not a weak square. A square describes two things in conflict, which at least implies they are on the same terms. A quincunx describes two things that do not have terms in common, so neither can be traded off against the other.
How it reads
The self and the refusal argue. Read as the cost of being palatable, and as a recurring choice between approval and accuracy.
In practice
Read as adjustment rather than conflict. The classical picture is of continually correcting for something that never resolves and never quite becomes a crisis, in the way a person compensates for a limp without noticing they are doing it. Modern practice associates it with health and with habits maintained past the point of usefulness.
What to watch for
The absence of a decision. Squares get resolved. A quincunx tends to get accommodated instead, and the tradition treats the accommodation itself as the thing worth looking at.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Sun and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Sun conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun 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 Sun and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.