△ Trine
Sun trine Uranus
Independence without a fight. Associated with people who are unusual and untroubled by it, and with sudden opportunities that suit them.
- Angle
- 120°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ☉ ♅
What these two are about together
Identity and disruption. Whether being yourself is a settled matter or something that keeps breaking and reforming.
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
Independence without a fight. Associated with people who are unusual and untroubled by it, and with sudden opportunities that suit them.
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
Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn
Famous charts with sun trine uranus
786 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 · 0.54° orb
- Marie CuriePhysicist and chemist · 1.85° orb
- Neil ArmstrongAstronaut · 2.8° orb
- Louis ArmstrongTrumpeter and singer · 1.4° orb
- Janis JoplinSinger · 1.98° orb
- Frederic ChopinComposer and pianist · 3.99° orb
- Stanley KubrickFilm director · 3.94° orb
- MichelangeloSculptor and painter · 1.27° orb
- Auguste RodinSculptor · 3.69° orb
- Nicolaus CopernicusAstronomer · 4.14° orb
- Dorothy HodgkinChemist · 4.38° orb
- Anton ChekhovPlaywright & short story writer · 4.99° orb
- Robert FrostPoet · 0.58° orb
- Ralph Waldo EmersonEssayist & lecturer · 4.06° orb
- Paul DiracPhysicist · 2.44° orb
- J. Robert OppenheimerPhysicist · 2.31° orb
- Bernhard RiemannMathematician · 3.78° orb
- Kurt GödelLogician & mathematician · 1.16° orb
- Francis CrickMolecular biologist · 2.32° orb
- Anton BrucknerComposer & organist · 0.14° orb
- Joseph HaydnComposer · 0.83° orb
- Count BasiePianist & bandleader · 2.13° orb
- Thelonious MonkPianist & composer · 3.14° orb
- RaphaelPainter & architect · 3.7° orb
Sun and Uranus at other angles
- Sun conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile UranusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square UranusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile UranusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx UranusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition UranusDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Sun and Uranus 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 Sun and Uranus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.
