⚻ Quincunx
Mercury quincunx Black Moon Lilith
Saying it costs. Read as a pattern of being right and being unwelcome, which is a description rather than a warning.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚸
What these two are about together
Voice and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the thing a person says that other people wish they had not.
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
Saying it costs. Read as a pattern of being right and being unwelcome, which is a description rather than a warning.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mercury and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mercury conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly 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 Mercury and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.