Q Quintile
Mercury quintile Chiron
Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚷
What these two are about together
Voice and the sore place. Associated with the difference between what a person can say and what they can be heard saying, and with speech as the thing that either healed or hurt.
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
Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mercury and Chiron at other angles
- Mercury conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury 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 Mercury and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.