Aspects
Mercury Quintile Saturn
The quintile, seventy-two degrees and prized by Kepler, is a subtle aspect of talent. Between your mind and your discipline it gives a creative gift for form: a knack for organizing thought with elegance, building systems, or finding the clean structure inside a hard problem. It is quiet and rewards development. The growth is using it. At your best you make rigor itself look inventive.
Lean in — Develop the gift for giving ideas a precise, elegant form.
Watch for — Leave the talent for clean structure unused.
- creativity
- structure
- minor-aspect
Sources
- Carter, The Astrological Aspects (1930)Catalogues the quintile as a subtle aspect of creative talent (after Kepler).
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)Reads the quintile as a creative gift for giving thought elegant structure.