Q Quintile
Sun quintile South Node
The old competence supports the self. Associated with a comfortable, capable self-image.
- Angle
- 72°
- Orb used
- ±2°
- Type
- Soft
- 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 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 old competence supports the self. Associated with a comfortable, capable self-image.
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
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 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 quincunx South NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- 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.