posted July 22, 2011 03:52 PM            

Moses Sirengar

"A quintile is a 72 degree aspect. It's based on '5.' If you divide 360 by 5 you get 72. '5' resonates with Mercury more than any planet; it's creative and magical. Any time you have a quintile, those two planets combine to form some very powerful magic and gifts. They are more interesting and unique than trines and sextiles, though also somewhat more subtle. If you want to find someone's gifts in a chart, don't forget the quintiles. They are very special!

Let's hear it for quintiles!"

AND

'I find quintiles to be extraordinarily important, and to work very well up to about 5 degrees of orb. I think if you don't look for quintiles, you're leaving out one of the most positive indicators in a chart for someone's greatest gifts or blessings, and, of course, we need all the blessings that we can get. So, for the sake of being a positive-minded astrology-student or practitioner, I think it's imperative to spot the quintiles. I'd say treat quintiles like a trine, only more unique and special to the person. Quintile people, in general, are very creative and/or very mentally brilliant, whereas trine people, in general, are more laid-back and able to play and enjoy R & R. The negative of the quintile is being overly mental or active, while the negative of the trine is in being lazy or undisciplined or ungrounded. Since the quintile is based on '5' it makes sense to me that it should be given a wide orb. It's the most primary numerological aspect after the conjunction (1), opposition (2), trine (3), and square (4)."

AND

Noel Tyl
"Open Sesame! With Multiple Quintiles!
The quintile is a beguiling connection between planetary symbols of individual potentials. It is beguiling because the fifth harmonic (360/5=72) sings of creative thought and energy --and it really does not matter between what bodies or points the relationship occurs!! This is the first consideration: that they –the quintiles-- are there!.

The seventy-two degree quintile seems to course through the individual's entire system, normally touching everything with special expressivity. And this is especially, reliably, and tellingly so when there are three, four, or more quintiles (recommended 2.5 degree orb) in the horoscope!"

posted July 22, 2011 07:51 PM            

My favorite film director has Sun quintile Moon, and Sun and Moon both biquintile Uranus.
Jodie Foster has 6: Moon quintile Venus, Moon quintile Neptune, Mercury quintile Saturn, Mercury quintile Pluto, Venus quintile Uranus, Saturn biquintile Pluto. I always see her as being quite brilliant and aware. She certainly has the smarts, bachelors and doctorate from yale, bilingual, creative, successfully made transition from child star to adult roles, then to director to producer, doesn't fawn herself in all the celeb junk, seems very lucid.