QUINTILES (72° & 144°)

Robert Hand and Bill Tierney, both referencing John Addy’s work on harmonics, have noted a certain destructive quality to the Quintile series, based on charts of such notable bad guys as Robespierre and Hitler. They do, however, also note that there is a positive and creative quality inherent in it. Hand, for instance, says that he associated the “five-series” aspects with transformation and “the fundamental energies of change (and) ability to turn creative inspiration into concrete end-products.”

Tierney tells us that in the early esoteric schools of astrology “the quintile was considered to symbolize an aspirant’s creative soul alignment with the Will of the Cosmos, suggesting that quintiles have occult, transcendental undertones.” He further suggests that quintiles fulfill their lofty universal potential once we have struggled to become more self-realized. Both authors speak of a drive and determination to create associated with the Quintiles. Yet another perspective, offered by A.G.S. Norris, tells us that “the quintile aspect is of importance in delineation from a spiritual point of view,” and associates it with Mercury and the nature of Epiphany.