△ Trine
Moon trine Jupiter
Optimism as a resting state. Read as resilience and as somebody people feel better around.
- Angle
- 120°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☽ ♃
What these two are about together
Need and expansion. How much is enough, emotionally, and what happens when the answer is more.
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
Optimism as a resting state. Read as resilience and as somebody people feel better 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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Famous charts with moon trine jupiter
788 of the 13,000 documented charts on this site have it. The 24 best known are below. Every one is computed from that figure’s own birth data, with the source of the birth time stated on their page.
- Muhammad AliBoxer & activist · 3.46° orb · approximate
- Dolores O'RiordanSinger, The Cranberries · 2.09° orb · approximate
- Mary ShelleyNovelist · 3.09° orb · approximate
- Agatha ChristieCrime novelist · 3.17° orb · approximate
- Toni MorrisonNovelist · 0.74° orb · approximate
- Claude MonetPainter · 0.07° orb · approximate
- Karl MarxPhilosopher and economist · 3.09° orb · approximate
- Syd BarrettMusician and songwriter · 4.67° orb · approximate
- James DeanActor · 4.15° orb · approximate
- Carrie FisherActor and writer · 2.65° orb · approximate
- Nicolaus CopernicusAstronomer · 4.53° orb · approximate
- Oskar SchindlerIndustrialist · 4.63° orb · approximate
- Anna AkhmatovaPoet · 4.36° orb · approximate
- Thomas HardyNovelist & poet · 2.65° orb · approximate
- F. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist · 3.34° orb · approximate
- Paul DiracPhysicist · 2.52° orb · approximate
- Srinivasa RamanujanMathematician · 4.36° orb · approximate
- Fred HoyleAstronomer · 3.62° orb · approximate
- Frederick SangerBiochemist · 3.32° orb · approximate
- Maurice WilkinsBiophysicist · 2.79° orb · approximate
- Modest MussorgskyComposer · 4° orb · approximate
- George GershwinComposer · 4.22° orb · approximate
- Benjamin BrittenComposer · 1.79° orb · approximate
- Sam CookeSinger & songwriter · 1.94° orb · approximate
24 of these are marked approximate: the figure has a birth date and no birth time, and the Moon moves far enough in a day that the hour could change whether the aspect holds. The rest do not depend on the hour at all.
Moon and Jupiter at other angles
- Moon conjunction JupiterTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square JupiterForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile JupiterSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square JupiterNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Moon opposition JupiterDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Moon and Jupiter also have a midpoint: the halfway point between them, read as a third place in the chart rather than as an angle between two.
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Moon and Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.
