posted March 08, 2006 03:23 AM              

My Mercury ( 2nd house Libra)quintiles my friend's Mercury ( 2nd house Pisces). BUT, next to the symbol for quintile (Q), there is a small b.What does that b stand for?

posted March 09, 2006 09:37 PM              

... but in the mean time, this excerpt is an interesting (alternative) way of looking at it (especially the bolded stuff ... :::

"... Each aspect series results from division of the circle by the numbers 1 through 12. 1 results in the conjunction, 2 in the opposition, 3 the trine, 4 the square, 5 the quintile, 6 the sextile, 7 the septile, 8 the semisquare, 9 the novile, 10 the decile (or semi-quintile), 11 the elftile, and 12 the semi-sextile. There are harmonics of these, of course.

For example, in the specializing series represented by the Decile and Quintile, there is also the Tredecile (108 degrees) and the Biquintile (144 degrees). All four of the aspects in this series show unique specializations, whether partly developed uniquenesses (decile), fully developed uniquenesses (quintile), interactive complementary uniquenesses (tredecile), or interactive fully developed uniquenesses (biquintile)..."

(Source: www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2005/09/astrological_as.html