Q Quintile
Mercury quintile Venus
Charm in communication. Read as somebody who is easy to talk to and who negotiates without it feeling like negotiation.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ♀
What these two are about together
Mind and value. How thinking and taste inform each other, which the tradition reads as the aspect of style in the broadest sense.
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
Charm in communication. Read as somebody who is easy to talk to and who negotiates without it feeling like negotiation.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Mercury and Venus at other angles
- Mercury conjunction VenusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile VenusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square VenusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile VenusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury square VenusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine VenusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate VenusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx VenusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition VenusDirectly 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 Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.