Q Quintile
Mars quintile South Node
The old approach works. Associated with competence under pressure.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♂ ☋
What these two are about together
Action and what is already known. Associated with the reflex a person reaches for under pressure, and with whether that reflex still serves them.
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 old approach works. Associated with competence under pressure.
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
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Mars and South Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mars 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 Mars and South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.