Q Quintile
Venus quintile Chiron
Affection reaches the sore place. Associated with relationships that are quietly repairing, and with somebody who is easy to be imperfect around.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚷
What these two are about together
Worth and the sore place. The tradition reads this as the aspect most concerned with whether a person believes they are wanted, and with what they do about believing they are not.
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
Affection reaches the sore place. Associated with relationships that are quietly repairing, and with somebody who is easy to be imperfect around.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Venus and Chiron at other angles
- Venus conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition ChironDirectly 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 Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.