Moon quintile Mars

What these two are about together

Need and drive. How quickly feeling becomes action, and what a person does with anger.

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

Feelings translate into action cleanly. Associated with people who deal with a problem rather than sitting in it.

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

Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Moon and Mars at other angles

• Moon conjunction MarsTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Moon semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Moon sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Moon square MarsNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Moon trine MarsA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Moon sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Moon quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Moon opposition MarsDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis