Q Quintile
Moon quintile North Node
Feeling supports the growth. Associated with development that does not cost security, which is rare enough for the tradition to mark it.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ☊
What these two are about together
Comfort and the direction of development, which the tradition treats as one of the more demanding pairs, because the Moon is what already feels safe and the North Node is by definition unfamiliar.
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
Feeling supports the growth. Associated with development that does not cost security, which is rare enough for the tradition to mark 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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Moon and North Node at other angles
- Moon conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.