Moon trine Pluto

What these two are about together

Need and power. Emotional intensity at its most extreme, and the tradition's clearest statement about what people do when they are afraid of losing something.

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

Emotional endurance. Associated with people who survive things and are strengthened rather than hollowed by them.

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

Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried

Moon and Pluto at other angles

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