Q Quintile
Sun quintile Jupiter
Growth without much friction. Associated with opportunity that arrives through being well thought of, and with an easy faith that things will work out.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ♃
What these two are about together
Identity and expansion. How much room you believe you are entitled to take up, and what happens when that belief meets the world.
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
Growth without much friction. Associated with opportunity that arrives through being well thought of, and with an easy faith that things will work out.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Sun and Jupiter at other angles
- Sun conjunction JupiterTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square JupiterForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun square JupiterNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine JupiterA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition JupiterDirectly 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 Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.