Venus trine North Node

What these two are about together

What is wanted and the direction of development. The tradition associates this pair with relationships and values that carry a person forward, and with the difference between what is attractive and what is good for them.

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 helps the growth. Associated with relationships that develop a person rather than settle them.

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

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

Venus and North Node at other angles

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