⚻ Quincunx
Moon quincunx Black Moon Lilith
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚸
What these two are about together
Feeling and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the feelings a person learned early not to show, and with what happens to them 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
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
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
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Moon and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Moon conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon 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 Moon and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.