⚻ Quincunx
Sun quincunx South Node
Identity and the old habit argue. Read as the useful kind of discomfort, and as the point at which a person stops doing the thing they are known for.
- Angle
- 150°
- Orb used
- ±3°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ☋
What these two are about together
The self and what is already known. The South Node is read as the familiar competence, so this is about identity resting on something a person is already good at.
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
Identity and the old habit argue. Read as the useful kind of discomfort, and as the point at which a person stops doing the thing they are known for.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Sun and South Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun opposition South 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 Sun and South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.