Q Quintile

Sun quintile Mars

Effort comes easily and in your own interest. Associated with physical confidence and with people who do not need to be talked into starting.

Angle
72°
Orb used
±2°
Type
Soft
Bodies
☉ ♂

What these two are about together

Identity and drive. What you are becoming, and the force you are willing to use to get there. The tradition treats this as the pair that decides whether somebody acts on their own behalf.

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

Effort comes easily and in your own interest. Associated with physical confidence and with people who do not need to be talked into starting.

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

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Famous charts with sun quintile mars

433 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.

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Sun and Mars at other angles

Sun and Mars 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 Sun and Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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