Q Quintile
Moon quintile Pluto
Emotional endurance. Associated with people who survive things and are strengthened rather than hollowed by them.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ♇
What these two are about together
Need and power. Emotional intensity at its most extreme, and the tradition's clearest statement about what people do when they are afraid of losing something.
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
Emotional endurance. Associated with people who survive things and are strengthened rather than hollowed by them.
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
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Moon and Pluto at other angles
- Moon conjunction PlutoTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon square PlutoNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx PlutoA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition PlutoDirectly 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 Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.