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Yod

Two bodies sextile, both quincunx a third — the apex

Sometimes called the Finger of God: two bodies 60° apart, both 150° from a third. An isosceles triangle with a narrow point.

The quincunx (150°) is the odd one out among the aspects this site draws — it isn't a division of the circle by a small whole number the way the trine (÷3), square (÷4), sextile (÷6) and opposition (÷2) are, and it gets a noticeably tighter orb here as a result (3° in the pattern detector, versus 7° for a trine). A yod therefore has to be genuinely close to register at all, which is part of why the tradition treats it as a rarer, more pointed configuration than a grand trine.

Two bodies 60° apart form the base; each is 150° from the apex, which sits neither trine, square, nor opposite either base body — a quincunx has no comfortable relationship to either half of the sextile beneath it, which is the geometric root of the figure's traditional reputation for pointing at something the rest of the chart doesn't resolve on its own.

Because the quincunx orb is so narrow, a yod reported here is a tighter claim than the other configurations on this page relative to their own orbs — worth weighing against a grand trine or T-square found at the wide end of its allowance, which this page's orb note exists to make comparable.

Traditionally attributed

A specific, unintegrated pressure pointing toward the apex body — traditionally read as a talent or task that has to be actively taken up, since nothing else in the geometry does it automatically.

Listed because it is what the tradition says, not because this site can check it. Everything above this line is geometry; everything in it is convention.