Moon trine Mercury

What these two are about together

Feeling and thinking. Whether what you feel can be put into words, and whether what you say matches what is going on underneath.

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 articulate easily. Associated with good listeners, with people who explain difficult things kindly, and with an instinctive rather than trained understanding of others.

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

Mercury: Mind, language and how you process

Moon and Mercury at other angles

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