Sun trine Mars

What these two are about together

Identity and drive. What you are becoming, and the force you are willing to use to get there. The tradition treats this as the pair that decides whether somebody acts on their own behalf.

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

Effort comes easily and in your own interest. Associated with physical confidence and with people who do not need to be talked into starting.

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

Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming

Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things

Sun and Mars at other angles

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