Mars trine South Node

What these two are about together

Action and what is already known. Associated with the reflex a person reaches for under pressure, and with whether that reflex still serves them.

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

The old approach works. Associated with competence under pressure.

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

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Mars and South Node at other angles

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