Q Quintile
Sun quintile Black Moon Lilith
The refusal sits comfortably in the self. Associated with a person who is direct about what they will not do, without it costing them.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- 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 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
The refusal sits comfortably in the self. Associated with a person who is direct about what they will not do, without it costing them.
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
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 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 quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- 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.