Sun trine Neptune

What these two are about together

Identity and dissolution. What happens to a sense of self when the edges are not firm, which the tradition reads as both the artistic gift and the central difficulty of this pair.

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

Imagination is available without cost. Read as creative facility and as a natural, undramatic kind of empathy.

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

Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming

Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly

Sun and Neptune at other angles

• Sun conjunction NeptuneTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Sun semi-sextile NeptuneThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Sun semi-square NeptuneForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Sun sextile NeptuneSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Sun quintile NeptuneSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Sun square NeptuneNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Sun sesquiquadrate NeptuneA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Sun quincunx NeptuneA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
• Sun opposition NeptuneDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis