⚻ Quincunx

Venus quincunx Mars

Attraction and drive disagree. Traditionally read as wanting what fights back, as a pattern of pursuit and withdrawal, and as friction between affection and appetite.

Angle
150°
Orb used
±3°
Type
Hard
Bodies
♀ ♂

What these two are about together

Attraction and drive. The classical pairing for desire, and for the difference between wanting something and going after it.

What a quincunx does

A quincunx, also called an inconjunct, puts two planets in signs that share nothing at all: not element, not quality, not polarity, and not even the awkward adjacency of the semi-sextile. The tradition is specific that this is not a weak square. A square describes two things in conflict, which at least implies they are on the same terms. A quincunx describes two things that do not have terms in common, so neither can be traded off against the other.

How it reads

Attraction and drive disagree. Traditionally read as wanting what fights back, as a pattern of pursuit and withdrawal, and as friction between affection and appetite.

In practice

Read as adjustment rather than conflict. The classical picture is of continually correcting for something that never resolves and never quite becomes a crisis, in the way a person compensates for a limp without noticing they are doing it. Modern practice associates it with health and with habits maintained past the point of usefulness.

What to watch for

The absence of a decision. Squares get resolved. A quincunx tends to get accommodated instead, and the tradition treats the accommodation itself as the thing worth looking at.

The two planets

Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Famous charts with venus quincunx mars

222 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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Venus and Mars at other angles

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

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