Q Quintile
Sun quintile North Node
Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ☊
What these two are about together
The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.
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
Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Sun and North Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun 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 Sun and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.