Mars trine North Node

What these two are about together

Action and the direction of development. Associated with whether a person actually moves toward what they are supposed to be growing into, which the tradition treats as the whole practical question of the nodes.

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 is straightforward. Associated with effort that lands where it is useful.

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

North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at

Mars and North Node at other angles

• Mars conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Mars semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Mars semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Mars sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Mars quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Mars square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Mars sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Mars quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Mars opposition North NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis