△ Trine
Mercury trine Black Moon Lilith
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
- Angle
- 120°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚸
What these two are about together
Voice and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the thing a person says that other people wish they had 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
The blunt thing lands well. Associated with humour, and with being the one who names what everybody noticed.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mercury and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mercury conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Mercury opposition Black Moon LilithDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Mercury and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.