Mercury trine North Node

What these two are about together

Thinking and the direction of development. Associated with learning as the route forward, and with the difference between what a person already knows and what they will have to.

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

Understanding comes easily in that direction. Associated with picking things up quickly where it matters most.

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

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

Mercury and North Node at other angles

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