The Great Grand Trine
Note to my readers: This post contains a lot of geeky astrological lingo. If you find it overwhelming skip to the bottom where I’ve translated this into English for you.
Throughout the month of March a Grand Trine is in effect between Jupiter in Taurus, Pluto in Capricorn, and Mars in Virgo. Normally Mars moves quickly through the zodiac but because it has been retrograde and is moving slowly now before it changes direction, it is at a virtual standstill as part of this Grand Trine.
A Grand Trine is a triangular formation that consists of three separate trines. You may have noticed that Jupiter and Venus have been getting closer and closer to a conjunction in the sky and that formation peaked last night, and these two are conjunct the point in the sky known as the Black Moon Lilith. The Black Moon Lilith is not an actual body but is more like a void out of which comes the darkness of our deepest and most fearful emotions.
The trine aspect promotes ease and harmony, which you would think would be a good thing and it can be, but it also can create laziness and complacency. This Grand Trine is in the element of Earth which desires stability at all costs, yet we also have an opposition (stressful aspect) between the assertive energy of Mars and the raw emotional sensitivity of Chiron which forms what we call a Kite to the Grand Trine.
Kites add a layer of unresolved tension to a Grand Trine and yet the circular energy of the Trine makes it difficult to move through the tension towards resolution but also adds a dynamic quality to the stasis of the Grand Trine. This suggests that even though […]
This week’s inspiration is the Grand Trine in Earth that is blessing us from the heavens over the next couple of weeks. A Grand Trine occurs when three (or more) planets align in a triangular formation, dividing the circle of the zodiac into thirds. The number three is a perfect number: it cannot be subdivided and creates a perfect balance.