Venus trine Chiron

What these two are about together

Worth and the sore place. The tradition reads this as the aspect most concerned with whether a person believes they are wanted, and with what they do about believing they are not.

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

Affection reaches the sore place. Associated with relationships that are quietly repairing, and with somebody who is easy to be imperfect around.

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

Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful

Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do

Venus and Chiron at other angles

• Venus conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Venus semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Venus semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Venus sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Venus quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Venus square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Venus sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Venus quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Venus opposition ChironDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis