⚻ Quincunx
Venus quincunx North Node
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ☊
What these two are about together
What is wanted and the direction of development. The tradition associates this pair with relationships and values that carry a person forward, and with the difference between what is attractive and what is good for them.
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
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Venus and North Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus opposition North NodeDirectly 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 Venus and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.