posted December 27, 2018 01:51 PM            

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Originally posted by Brenda_S:
I know it's considered a minor aspect, ...

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Maybe by astrologers who are not up to date in their perspective. The quincunx aka inconjunct is a major aspect, but requires a reduced orb given its proximity to other minor aspects (144°, 154°).

Minor aspects can be overlooked in basic birth chart interpretation. Quincunxes cannot. They are standouts, the only aspects created by a fraction (2-2/5) of the 360° circle rather than a whole number. So they represent important life lessons in soul growth.

Venus quincunx Saturn suggests self-worth issues and a tendency to over-compensate in earning what should be assumed in that way. It is also one of the aspects that can imply ease of guilt or some underlying guilt carried in (karma) that is best understood and cleansed away rather than 'worked off.' The person will have definite standards, yet they may be put in place because of fear of rejection. Saturn in hard/awkward aspects to Moon or Venus virtually always says something about underlying fear, especially of rejection. Caution too easily becomes the rule when dealing with affections and relationships. The real effort can be in the direction of relating and in easing into simple expression of affection rather than holding back what does not have a great force behind it. Those feelings denied expression cannot be satisfactorily invested in work and material reward alone. It is too easy to see relations through the eyes of arrangement than genuine affection. So the lessons are in allowing the little expressions of affection to those persons who you feel natural attraction and relatability. Measured expression of affection, but expression not suppression.

People with this aspect do have an innate understanding of the investment relationships require, and can be very willing to invest in projects or institutions that hold long-term values, but then leave themselves out in the cold when it comes to personal relationships. This aspect is actually asking for that balance to be shifted -- at least eventually -- back to the personal.

It is like a mild opposition that can be turned into a trine -- this lifetime.

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"Drift like a cloud and flow like water, seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy, and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of." -- Alan Watts

posted December 27, 2018 04:33 PM            

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Originally posted by Kannon McAfee:
Maybe by astrologers who are not up to date in their perspective. The quincunx aka inconjunct is a major aspect, but requires a reduced orb given its proximity to other minor aspects (144°, 154°).

Minor aspects can be overlooked in basic birth chart interpretation. Quincunxes cannot. They are standouts, the only aspects created by a fraction of the 360° circle rather than a whole number. So they represent important life lessons in soul growth.

Venus quincunx Saturn suggests self-worth issues and a tendency to over-compensate in earning what should be assumed in that way. It is also one of the aspects that can imply ease of guilt or some underlying guilt carried in (karma) that is best understood and cleansed away rather than 'worked off.' The person will have definite standards, yet they may be put in place because of fear of rejection. Saturn in hard/awkward aspects to Moon or Venus virtually always says something about underlying fear, especially of rejection. Caution too easily becomes the rule when dealing with affections and relationships. The real effort can be in the direction of relating and in easing into simple expression of affection rather than holding back what does not have a great force behind it. Those feelings denied expression cannot be satisfactorily invested in work and material reward alone. It is too easy to see relations through the eyes of arrangement than genuine affection. So the lessons are in allowing the little expressions of affection to those persons who you feel natural attraction and relatability. Measured expression of affection, but expression not suppression.

People with this aspect do have an innate understanding of the investment relationships require, and can be very willing to invest in projects or institutions that hold long-term values, but then leave themselves out in the cold when it comes to personal relationships. This aspect is actually asking for that balance to be shifted -- at least eventually -- back to the personal.

It is like a mild opposition that can be turned into a trine -- this lifetime.

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Thanks Kannon.

"It is like a mild opposition that can be turned into a trine -- this lifetime."

At least there's hope lol.

posted December 27, 2018 04:35 PM            

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Originally posted by Aries23Degrees:
Sounds by the description that it is eerily similar to Venus-Saturn conjunction.

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posted December 28, 2018 07:43 PM            

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Originally posted by Brenda_S:
Thanks Kannon.

"It is like a mild opposition that can be turned into a trine -- this lifetime."

At least there's hope lol.

The opposition of Jupiter to Saturn (which is essentially a semi-sextile to Venus)... Wondering how that would mitigate it, if at all?

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The way to mitigate it is to find balance between reserve and long-term interests and expression of real affection and love (to learn the lessons). My description may not hit in on the nail for you, but there is definitely an adjustment that is needed to learn compatibility with others and comfortable closeness. Maybe that is the simpler explanation that I overlooked here: an adjustment in learning compatibility and comfortable closeness.

The Jupiter opposition to Saturn is another lesson in which balance is sought between the poles you have described here of too much vs too little, expression/expansion vs restraint/order.

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Is the inconjunct more powerful than the semi-sextile?

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Glad you brought up the semi-sextile. They are actually similar in nature, but the quincunx is stronger due to its more obtuse angle.

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"Drift like a cloud and flow like water, seeing that all life is a magnificent illusion, a playing of energy, and there is absolutely nothing fundamentally to be afraid of." -- Alan Watts