Moon trine South Node

What these two are about together

Comfort and what is already known, which the tradition treats as the most self-reinforcing pair in the chart: both halves are the familiar.

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 familiar soothes. Associated with security drawn from the past, from family, and from the way things have always been done.

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

South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in

Moon and South Node at other angles

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