Shares — our measurement for every day of 1950–2010 from the NASA ephemeris, with the same orbs as in the chart calculation.
What a trine means
A trine most often links planets of the same element — fire, earth, air or water — and the sides “speak the same language.” The flip side, by the same tradition, is an ease that goes unnoticed and undeveloped: it works anyway.
How to read a trine in your chart
The meaning of an aspect comes from the two planets. In the calculation each planet has one side noticeable in a person: Sun — self-regard; Moon — mood; Mercury — thoughts and words; Venus — likes and taste; Mars — anger and drive; Jupiter — reach and generosity; Saturn — self-control and sense of duty; Uranus — an urge for change; Neptune — dreaminess; Pluto — a need for control.
On the chart screen a trine reads like this: “in you one helps the other out — when one is hard going, the second helps.” Not about you — if they rather get in each other’s way.
For example: Sun (self-regard) and Moon (mood) in trine: hurt self-regard is quickly set right by a good mood, and a bad mood by something you can be proud of.
The smaller the orb — the distance to the exact angle — the stronger the aspect by tradition; on the chart screen the aspects go from the most exact.
When a trine marks the year, not the person
The slow planets stay in the same aspect for months and years, and such an aspect is found in most people born in the same half-year. On the chart screen the aspects of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto with each other are marked as generational, without an interpretation of character, and for the rest it says how many peers have them.
- Saturn — Pluto — in 6 out of 10 peersFebruary 1958 — November 1960, with breaks; June 1970 — May 1972, with breaks; May 1995 — January 1998, with breaks; August 2006 — July 2008, with breaks
- Saturn — Neptune — in 6 out of 10 peersApril 1965 — March 1967, with breaks; July 1976 — May 1978, with breaks; July 2000 — June 2002, with breaks
- Saturn — Uranus — in 5 out of 10 peersJanuary 1955 — November 1958, with breaks; July 1971 — May 1974, with breaks; September 2001 — June 2004, with breaks
“In 9 out of 10” — how many of those born within half a year before and after a person with this aspect also have it. Dates — when the angle held within the orb, 1950–2010.
How to check it on yourself
Each statement below may turn out to be false about you — that’s how it’s written. The aspects of your chart are on the chart screen: each has its orb there. Write your answer down before you compare it with the interpretation.
If your chart has a trine of two personal planets — the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars — with an orb of up to 3°
What should match. Recall three difficult occasions over the past year when one of the two sides let you down. In at least two, the other one helped out.
When it’s not about you. In two out of three the other one also let you down or got in the way — this trine isn’t about you.
If your chart has more than one aspect of this kind
What should match. Take the most exact one (the smallest orb) and the widest one. For a week, note which of the two pairs of sides made itself felt more. By tradition — the exact one.
When it’s not about you. More often the wide one was more noticeable — ordering by orb doesn’t work for you, and it’s worth reading aspects without looking at the orb.
All five aspects — on the general page. How we check the rest — the site’s method.