Mars trine Chiron

What these two are about together

Assertion and the sore place. Associated with what happens to somebody who was punished for wanting things, and with the particular difficulty of acting on your own behalf.

What a trine does

A trine puts two planets in the same element, and the tradition reads it as the easiest relationship in the chart. What the two govern agree with each other and need no negotiating. It is usually experienced as a natural facility, which is exactly why it is also the aspect most often taken for granted.

How it reads

Acting on it works. Associated with people who use the difficult thing as a reason to do something rather than as a reason to stop.

In practice

Read as ability rather than luck. Trines describe what somebody can do without effort, and consequently what they may never have bothered to develop.

What to watch for

Complacency. The traditional caution about trines is that nothing here demands anything, so nothing here necessarily grows.

The two planets

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do

Mars and Chiron at other angles

• Mars conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Mars semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Mars semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Mars sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Mars quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Mars square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Mars sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Mars quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Mars opposition ChironDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis