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Mars quincunx Neptune: motivation and desire are half a square apart

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The moment when you are unable to exert your strength, it is actually not because you are not working hard enough - when Mars and Neptune are in quincunx (also known as quincunx phase), the motivation of Mars and the desire of Neptune are 150 degrees apart, and what is missing in the middle is the adapter.

Indicator: Mars and Neptune form a quincunx, with output and desire running independently. This faded connection marks the middle interface.Schematic, not a real chart

Mars and Neptune become the core of quincunx: one sentence version

150 degrees squeezes out an angle that is hard to say, but obviously wrong: you exert force on one side, but your desire is on the other side; the picture of your desire is very clear, but the things at hand cannot feed it. This is not a conflict but a misunderstanding - both sides can be used separately, but they can’t be combined into the same sentence.

What each planet wants

Mars wants immediate action and clear-cut results, while Neptune wants imagination, inspiration and the dissolution of boundaries; the two ends are separated by five signs on the zodiac, and the elements and patterns are not in line. The responsibility of translation is yours: find a shell for your motivation that can contain your desires, and find a shape for your desires that can move.

The feeling of minor aspect: three specific scenes

  1. When chasing the results in front of me, everything was normal. When the night cleared, the life I longed for appeared again, and the two sides couldn’t keep up.
  2. I gave myself a holiday to adjust, but it didn’t take long for me to feel something was wrong all over - the direction I wanted to move was not at hand at the moment.
  3. People around you only see you being depressed occasionally and can’t tell where you are stuck; it’s not that you lack opportunities, it’s that your exit is just half a step away from what you want.

Immature and mature expressions

The immature version simply cuts off one side: for a while, you will fight for results in a panic, pretending that you have no aspirations, and for a while, you will only live in aspirations, and shut down the entire action group. Both types of cuts leave the same emptiness. The mature version regards misalignment as a difference in specifications - every time you get stuck, make a slight adjustment: to make the thing at hand have a little more meaning, or to make the wish into a form that can be moved this weekend. After grinding for a few rounds, you will have your own adjustment method.

Orb and priority: 150 degrees, natal convention within 0 degrees

quincunx does not draw a line on astro.how’s natal chart: orb is set as 0 degrees. Each company has different practices. There are also astrologers who use a narrow orb of two or three degrees, and check it with the actual angle between the two stars when confirming. It belongs to the minor aspect in the interpretation order. After reading all the main aspects, the one that is still there can no longer be used, so it is handed over to this aspect.

Cheat Sheet: Six Aspects of Mars and Neptune

The six matching methods are arranged according to angles in the table below.

Aspect Angle and natal orb In one sentence
conjunction Within 0 degrees, 7 degrees Comes with the desired filter at the start
opposition 180 degrees, within 7 degrees Momentum and fantasy are at one end of the spectrum
trine 120 degrees, within 6 degrees Intuition paves the way for strength
square 90 degrees, within 6 degrees Desire and action stumble each other
sextile 60 degrees, within 4 degrees The passage requires you to reach out first.
quincunx (this page) 150 degrees, not marked Motivation and desire are half a beat apart

quincunx will not appear in the red tension lines on the chart, but it is often the missing corner when solving the chart: Myth of hard aspect First remove the default “Phase must have good and bad luck”, collect all Mars Neptune combinations in Phase Pairing Index, Aspects Course arrange the entire set of phase languages ​​into lessons that can be practiced.

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