⚻ Quincunx
Moon quincunx Chiron
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚷
What these two are about together
Feeling and the sore place. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with early care: what was missing, what was given inconsistently, and what a person does about it afterwards.
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
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Moon and Chiron at other angles
- Moon conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon 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 Moon and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.