△ Trine
Venus trine Mars
Desire that moves easily. Associated with warmth, creative energy and an uncomplicated relationship with wanting things.
- Angle
- 120°
- Orb used
- ±5°
- Type
- Soft
- Bodies
- ♀ ♂
What these two are about together
Attraction and drive. The classical pairing for desire, and for the difference between wanting something and going after it.
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
Desire that moves easily. Associated with warmth, creative energy and an uncomplicated relationship with wanting things.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Famous charts with venus trine mars
630 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.
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComposer · 1.02° orb
- John ColtraneSaxophonist and composer · 4.42° orb
- Ray CharlesSinger and pianist · 0.04° orb
- Antonin DvorakComposer · 3.64° orb
- Errol FlynnActor · 2.83° orb
- Joan of ArcMilitary leader · 2.07° orb
- James BaldwinNovelist and essayist · 1.71° orb
- Ezra PoundPoet · 4.16° orb
- F. Scott FitzgeraldNovelist · 2.45° orb
- Leonhard EulerMathematician · 3.48° orb
- Richard WagnerComposer · 3.91° orb
- Gioachino RossiniComposer · 0.74° orb
- Duke EllingtonComposer & bandleader · 2.71° orb
- Jean RenoirFilm director · 1.8° orb
- Andrew Johnson17th U.S. President · 4.18° orb
- Robert PeelBritish Prime Minister · 3.86° orb
- Indira GandhiIndian Prime Minister · 4.37° orb
- Henry VIIIKing of England · 0.02° orb
- Richard HarrisActor & singer · 2.2° orb
- Greta GarboActress · 2.77° orb
- James Earl JonesActor · 0.03° orb
- Brandon LeeActor · 2.31° orb
- Carl ReinerComedian & director · 4.87° orb
- Willie MaysBaseball player · 0.23° orb
Venus and Mars at other angles
- Venus conjunction MarsTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile MarsThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square MarsForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile MarsSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile MarsSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square MarsNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus sesquiquadrate MarsA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx MarsA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Venus opposition MarsDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Venus and Mars 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 Venus and Mars actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.
