Q Quintile
Sun quintile Uranus
Independence without a fight. Associated with people who are unusual and untroubled by it, and with sudden opportunities that suit them.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ♅
What these two are about together
Identity and disruption. Whether being yourself is a settled matter or something that keeps breaking and reforming.
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
Independence without a fight. Associated with people who are unusual and untroubled by it, and with sudden opportunities that suit 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
Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn
Sun and Uranus at other angles
- Sun conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile UranusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square UranusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine UranusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx UranusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition UranusDirectly 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 Uranus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.