The Bajiggity Quincunx

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a week with this many quincunxes! The quincunx, also called an inconjunct, is an interesting aspect. It isn’t as frequently discussed as other aspects. I first became interested in them when I was trying to understand the “Yods” in my chart. Yods are fairly complicated, and we’ll get into those another time. As for the quincunx, it is a 150 degree angle between two planets. The 2 planets are 5 signs apart and have nothing in common. Some key words for the quincunx, or the inconjunct are : redirecting, challenging, requiring adjustments, diverting. The 2 points involved are difficult to blend. This oil and water characteristic can lead to overdoing one of the points, and possible dissatisfaction with both. There are 6 quincunxes (That I am aware of, anyway) this week (!), making this a time period where not a lot of progress is likely. We are likely to feel tension, ambivalence, obsession, compulsion, over-doing, under-doing, laziness, over...