Q Quintile
Moon quintile Neptune
Empathy that costs nothing. Read as kindness, imagination and an ease with art or music.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ♆
What these two are about together
Need and dissolution. The most permeable pair in the chart, and the one the tradition most associates with both compassion and self-deception.
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
Empathy that costs nothing. Read as kindness, imagination and an ease with art or music.
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
Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly
Moon and Neptune at other angles
- Moon conjunction NeptuneTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile NeptuneThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square NeptuneForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile NeptuneSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon square NeptuneNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine NeptuneA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate NeptuneA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx NeptuneA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition NeptuneDirectly 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 Neptune actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.