⚻ Quincunx
Moon quincunx Venus
What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♀
What these two are about together
Need and value. What comforts you and what you find beautiful, which the tradition treats as one of the gentlest pairs in the chart.
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
What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Moon and Venus at other angles
- Moon conjunction VenusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile VenusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square VenusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile VenusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile VenusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square VenusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine VenusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate VenusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon 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 Moon and Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.