Q Quintile
Sun quintile Chiron
The injury has been integrated. Associated with people who can speak about the difficult thing without it costing them, and who are therefore trusted with it by others.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- 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 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
The injury has been integrated. Associated with people who can speak about the difficult thing without it costing them, and who are therefore trusted with it by others.
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
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 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 quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- 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.