Q Quintile
Venus quintile South Node
The familiar is genuinely pleasant. Associated with easy affection and with old friendships that hold.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♀ ☋
What these two are about together
What is wanted and what is already known. The tradition associates this with the type a person keeps returning to, in relationships and in taste.
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
The familiar is genuinely pleasant. Associated with easy affection and with old friendships that hold.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Venus and South Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition South 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.