Venus trine Black Moon Lilith

What these two are about together

Worth and what will not be made acceptable, which the tradition treats as the central Lilith pairing and also the one most often written about badly.

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 refusal is attractive. Associated with self-possession, and with being wanted for the part that was supposed to be hidden.

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

Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for

Venus and Black Moon Lilith at other angles

• Venus conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Venus semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Venus semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Venus sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Venus quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Venus square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Venus sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Venus quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Venus opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis