Sun trine North Node

What these two are about together

The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.

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

Growing that way is comfortable. Associated with development that does not feel like a fight, which the tradition notes is pleasant and easy to neglect.

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

North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at

Sun and North Node at other angles

• Sun conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Sun semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Sun sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Sun quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Sun square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Sun sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Sun opposition North NodeDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis