by Robert Wilkinson
Due to a discussion over at KISS about quintiles and biquintiles, I was inspired to offer you something about all of the aspects generated by the 5th harmonic aspect series and all derivative series, including the 10th, 15th, and 20th harmonics. Today we’ll cover the aspects named in the title.
About 10 years ago I gave you an article about the basics of the 5th and 10th harmonic aspects, i.e., the decile, quintile, tredecile, and biquintile. Today I’ve extensively rewritten and added to what I originally composed.
There has been a lot written about the Quintile series of aspects, much of it vague, fairly generalized, and often speculative. Since these angles occur with great frequency, I thought reintroducing them with my take can give you valuable insights into this misunderstood but very powerful series of aspects.
The entire 5th Harmonic aspect series is based on division of the circle by 5, yielding 72 degrees as the primary aspect, which we know as the Quintile. It's glyph is a star. This aspect represents specialization, gifts, and unique conditions. It is an aspect of creativity.
No matter how similar it may be to other quintiles in other charts and times, each quintile is a unique quality or condition. These show us “quintessential” circumstances that have been weaved out of the “biospheric” potential of the “natural 4th” and raised by Creative Mind into the “human 5th.” In transits, they are points of specialization or unique "quintessential" events and experiences that hold the potential of raising the 4 vibration to the 5, from instinctive to individual, from generic to specialized.
Any quintile represents a high degree of specialized force or form, something unique brought forth, an act, talent, or thing that has been transformed out of generic materials. Thus it shows a point of high individualization, a unique stage of development, or a talent or gift recognized and/or articulated. All the other aspects in the series to some degree show this energy of specialization, but in different phases of the process than the Quintile itself.
The types of high specialization or unique gifts and talents are shown by the planets involved and where they fall and rule in the chart. The planets show the specialization, and the houses the planets in quintile fall in show the life areas where they will be discovered and worked out.
I've found, though, that if the productive possibilities of those interrelated planetary energies haven't been developed, then the quintile will not be as evident as it would be had the ground been prepared to bring forth that gift. For example, someone may have a potential musical gift, but if they never learn how to play an instrument, their ability to demonstrate that gift will be severely limited. Someone may have a unique healing power, but it will only come forth randomly (if at all) without proper training.
The Biquintile, as the name implies, is a 144 degree aspect showing a unique interactive situation, where one gift interacts with another gift, creatively and/or regeneratively. It is an interactive unique form of self-expression that often involves other people and their unique gifts, whether they align harmoniously with yours or not. Its glyph as given in Llewellyn George's A To Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator is the mathematical "Plus/Minus" sign, a plus over a minus.
Biquintiles, because they are interactive, always involve either a 5th house or 8th house form of expression. That’s where the factors of creativity and magnetism come into play. Of course, the interactivity will show in the houses where the planets in biquintile occupy, and again, only to the degree that each party represented by the planets in biquintile have specialized their part of the interactive dance.
The Decile, or Semi-quintile, is a 36 degree aspect showing a partly developed creative uniqueness, a minor gift, or some other manifestation of specialized creativity. It either secures a unique tendency (the waxing decile), or is the final flowering of a gift already realized (waning decile). Its glyph has two lines, with a vertical line perpendicular to the horizontal in the middle of the horizontal line.
We now take a look at what I believe is the least-understood and most underappreciated aspect of the 5th and 10th harmonic series, the Tredecile. This is a highly specialized aspect of 108 degrees, which besides being a mythological "Sacred number" symbolizing Divine Mother Energy, is also the complementary angle to the Quintile. Thus the Tredecile indicates a very special type of unique energy that complements whatever uniqueness, gifts, or specialized quintessence are occurring at the moment in a situation. Its glyph is a "V" on top of a vertical line, with two horizontal lines just below the V.
I have seen this aspect operate in several fashions, and all seem to involve a circumstance presenting itself that perfectly fits a unique gift or need, or a gift or unique quality that fits the need of a pre-existing circumstance. The Tredecile is complementary, interactive, and specialized, the "quintessence" of a thing perfectly complementing the "quintessence" of a circumstance.
When active, it seems to bring forth unique qualities in situations that involve interaction to bring forth awareness, completion, polarization, or re-polarization. The points opposite the planets in Tredecile are often associated with how the energies manifest, some need being fulfilled, some promise brought to expression, or some specialized gift or talent completed.
I have given it the keyword "SERENDIPITY." I believe this is the best descriptor for how the Tredecile works its magic. So exactly what does this word mean? We are told the definition of Serendipity involves "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for" and "an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident" and "good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries."
It is a word of relatively recent origin, invented by the noted author Horace Walpole in one of the more than 3,000 letters he wrote. Specifically, we read from dictionary.com that
In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word." Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka, Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of "a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of...."
While there is always more to explore in the quintile series aspects, we'll close this brief discussion now. In part 2 we will explore the Vigintile (18 degrees) and Quindecile (24 degrees), both of which are subsets of the 5th harmonic series. These in turn generate other minor aspects, and we’ll discuss their names and some of their qualities.
© Copyright 2007, 2016 Robert Wilkinson
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