Mercury trine Chiron

What these two are about together

Voice and the sore place. Associated with the difference between what a person can say and what they can be heard saying, and with speech as the thing that either healed or hurt.

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

Talking about it works. Associated with people who explain difficult things clearly because they had to learn them the hard way, and with teaching as a natural outlet.

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

Mercury: Mind, language and how you process

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

Mercury and Chiron at other angles

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