The Grand
Trine is supposed to be 搇ucky.?The problem with
搇uck?is that people can blow it. If there are too many trines in a
chart (it doesn't matter if they are in a Grand Trine or not) there is
usually be a tendency to take the easy way out, to let your life
drift.
A T-Cross can get you moving. Grand Trines can also get you moving ---
to bed.
The lopsided nature of the T-Cross focuses your attention to
one spot, that empty leg. But the Grand Trine looks like an equilateral
triangle. It's symmetrical. That means no outlet for the 揺nergy.?
The desire to move has to come from elsewhere in your chart, usually
from square aspects.
A Grand
Trine is formed when two planets that make a trine aspect
(120 degrees) both make another trine aspect to a third planet. If you
draw lines connecting all the planets, you get an equilateral triangle.
Sometimes, a fourth planet is opposite one of the Grand Trine
planets. That means it will probably make sextiles
(60 degree aspects) to the other two Grand Trine planets. If you draw
connecting lines on the chart, you get what looks like a Kite
formation.
The Kite is more dynamic than the Grand Trine because that
normally stressful opposition aspect breaks the symmetry and focuses the
揺nergy.?That opposition should be what you focus on when
interpreting this part of the horoscope.
One more thing. You don't always need three planets. The Angles
of the horoscope, the Ascendant and Mid-Heaven, can also be part
of a Grand Trine. In that case, the 揺nergy?may tend to focus on
the angle. In the case of the Mid-Heaven, the career can get a big
boost.
Let's
look at some examples:
Oprah
Winfrey
has a Grand Trine in Air signs. Air
signs deal with (surprise, surprise) communications.
Jupiter
(搇uck?
is in Gemini
(the number one communications sign) in the house of work (the 6th
house).
It trines Mercury,
the ruler of Gemini (more communication emphasis). Traditionally, when a
planet makes a favorable aspect with the ruler of its sign, that planet
is supposed to gain in 搒trength.?The effect is similar to having
your boss or landlord really like you. So far, we have luck,
communications, and work.
But where is the Grand Trine? The Grand Trine is formed because both Mercury
and Jupiter make trines with her Mid-Heaven (career). Jupiter in any Aspect
to the Mid-Heaven give 搇uck?in the career area and
inclines to show business. Mercury
aspects to the Mid-Heaven mean a career emphasizing (what else)
communications. It doesn't stop there. Jupiter gets extra strength by
being (1) the ruler of the Rising Sign (the sign appearing on the
Ascendant), and (2) the lead planet in a Locomotive shaped horoscope. While the Grand Trine increases 搇uck? it's those
square aspects (90 degree angles) that Saturn makes to her Sun and Venus that provide the ambition and
drive. Venus
rules her Libra Mid-Heaven (career).
Henri
Landru
had a Grand Trine in Fire
Signs. Fire provides inspiration, although (on its negative side) it can
tend to violence. The Grand trine didn't make him a serial killer. But
it did add to the luck he needed to keep from getting caught for so
long. He found out the hard way that if you rely on luck alone, it will
eventually run out. Landru's Grand
Trine is formed by Mars in Leo in his 5th house (romance) trining
Saturn in Sagittarius (ambition, efficiency) in his 8th house (death and
partner's money). Both are trine a conjunction (zero degree aspect) of
Venus (love) and Neptune (negatively, illusion and deception) in his
12th house (psychological problems and hidden things).
Gandhi
had
a Grand Trine in Fire
Signs.
He used his inspiration differently from Landru. Ironically, during the
non-violent Indian independence campaign, many people died. Fire burns.
Ghandi had Neptune (dreams and ideals as well as illusions and
deception) in Aries (action) making a trine with
Saturn (ambition,
efficiency) in Sagittarius (religion and philosophy) on one side, and
with the Moon (emotion, home and homeland) on the other. The
Moon was in
Leo (drama and show business) in his
10th house (career and public
image). You could say that Ghandi combined dharma and karma with drama. Ghandi also had a T-Cross fused with his Grand Trine. The Moon is common to both configurations and focuses all the 揺nergy?
to the bottom of the chart (foundations). Independence for India was a
side issue for Ghandi. What he was really trying to do was to change the
entire basis of human interaction.
Judd
Hirsch has a Grand Trine in Water
Signs. The Sun in Pisces trines Jupiter in Scorpio on one side and Pluto
in Cancer on the other. Like Ghandi, there is a rare combination of a
Grand Trine and a T-Cross. Venus in Aries is opposite Mars in
Libra.
Both make square aspects (90 degrees) with Pluto. This focuses the
揺nergy?of both the T-Cross and Grand Trine to the point opposite Pluto. That would be the 10th
house. Career. Show business is indicated
by his Neptune making a trine to the Mid-Heaven. The Grand Trine gave
him the luck. The T-Cross added drive.
Whitney
Houston has a Kite
formation with a Grand Trine in Fire
Signs. The Moon (emotion) and Jupiter (搇uck? are together
(conjunction) in Aries. They both trine her Leo Sun and her Sagittarius
Mid-Heaven. Once again, emphasis is on career. The Kite is formed by
Whitney's Saturn in Aquarius which opposes her Sun and makes Sextiles
(60 degree aspects) with her Moon, Jupiter, and Mid-Heaven. While Saturn
does add the discipline necessary to succeed, Saturn opposite the Sun
can give extra difficulties with partners. Oh yes. This planet of
obstacles is also placed in her 12th
house, which shows how we can do
ourselves in. She has to be extra careful in the relationship
department.
Stephen
King also has a Kite
formation with a Grand Trine in Fire
Signs. Saturn and Pluto (fear and the underworld) make a conjunction in
Leo (drama). Both are trine his Moon (emotions) which is in Sagittarius
(a sign that inclines to storytelling) in his 5th house (creativity and
self-expression). The Moon in any aspect to the Mid-Heaven means that
either you or what you do can come before the public. All of these
planets make trines with his Aries Mid-Heaven. Do we begin to see a
trend here? The Kite is completed by a conjunction of Mercury
(communications) and Neptune (dreams and imagination) in Libra. Notice
that everything focuses on the Mid-Heaven, the career. When you have a
chart like this, you have to consciously mess things up in order to
avoid success.
Bobby
Fischer the chess champion has a a Kite
formation AND
a
T-Cross fused together. First of all, there is a Grand Trine in Air
Signs (intellect and communications) consisting of Mars (energy,
aggression) in Aquarius, Uranus (genius, originality, the unexpected) in Gemini, and Neptune (imagination) in Libra. Pluto (extremes, obsession)
in Leo opposes Mars and completes the Kite. Pluto opposite Mars increases the desire to 揔ill the
enemy? especially when the focus is on the 7th
house. Ironically,
that house rules both partners and open enemies, anyone whom we treat as
equals. Like Ghandi, the Moon is in the 10th house, which can bring
you or what you do before the public. And like Ghandi, the Moon is part
of a T-Cross that focuses to the
4th
house. But where the Mahatma
conducted a lifelong campaign to free his homeland, the chess champion,
after a few brief years in the public eye, simply withdrew from sight.
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