Q Quintile

Sun quintile Moon

What you want and what you need agree. Associated with an unforced sense of self and, in the tradition, with a comparatively settled early home life.

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

What these two are about together

The two lights, and the oldest question in a chart: whether what you are becoming and what you actually need are pulling in the same direction. Every tradition treats this pair as the most important relationship in a birth 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

What you want and what you need agree. Associated with an unforced sense of self and, in the tradition, with a comparatively settled early home life.

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

Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you

Famous charts with sun quintile moon

347 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.

24 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.

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Sun and Moon at other angles

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

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