⚻ Quincunx
Sun quincunx Chiron
The self keeps meeting the sore place. Read as a recurring bruise to confidence rather than a defect, and traditionally described as the aspect most likely to be underestimated by the person carrying it.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚷
What these two are about together
The self and the injury that did not close. The tradition reads this as the place where a person is least able to take their own competence at face value, and where their actual usefulness to others tends to come from.
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
The self keeps meeting the sore place. Read as a recurring bruise to confidence rather than a defect, and traditionally described as the aspect most likely to be underestimated by the person carrying it.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Sun and Chiron at other angles
- Sun conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun opposition ChironDirectly 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 Sun and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.