Sun trine South Node

What these two are about together

The self and what is already known. The South Node is read as the familiar competence, so this is about identity resting on something a person is already good at.

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

The old competence supports the self. Associated with a comfortable, capable self-image.

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

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Sun and South Node at other angles

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