Venus trine South Node

What these two are about together

What is wanted and what is already known. The tradition associates this with the type a person keeps returning to, in relationships and in taste.

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 is genuinely pleasant. Associated with easy affection and with old friendships that hold.

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

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

Venus and South Node at other angles

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