Moon trine Mars

What these two are about together

Need and drive. How quickly feeling becomes action, and what a person does with anger.

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

Feelings translate into action cleanly. Associated with people who deal with a problem rather than sitting in it.

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

Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Moon and Mars at other angles

• Moon conjunction MarsTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Moon semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Moon semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Moon sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Moon quintile MarsSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Moon square MarsNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Moon sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Moon quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Moon opposition MarsDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis