The Yod is made up of two planets that form a sextile, and both planets also form a quincunx (150 degrees) to a third planet. The third planet and these two planets are generally in incompatible signs, either by element or quality, and thus do not naturally work together easily. There is an element of destiny in such a pattern. The individual must adapt to the energies or experience great pains.

A powerful aspect. See Finger of God.

In astrology a yod is said to form whenever one planet forms quincunxes (150° aspects) to two other planets that are separated by a sextile (60° aspect). The two planets in the sextile, being in complementary elements (fire and air or earth and water) work very well together, but the sign to which both of them are quincunx is of a dissimilar element to the other two and possesses characteristics that tend to be extremely incompatible with those of the other two signs. This third planet is pulling in an opposite direction from the other two and would like to resolve, but the astrological energies of the signs are so vastly different that they do not notice each other.