Grand Trine

Pure grand trine energy is about harmony and ease, the line of least resistance. Trine people have a real charm about them, seductive and languid, like falling back onto a giant, pluffy, triangular marshmellow.

However the grand trine could easily also be the most over-rated aspect pattern of all. It all depends very much on the state of the rest of the chart and also the planets involved in a grand trine. If the trine should contain some powerful stars this will make it less likely to disappoint and give it some real power.

Grand Trine Astrology

Sugar-coated describes the trine quite well, transits can pass us by quite easily because we didn’t notice the medicine going down. To make the best use of them is to probably to break some bad news on a trine transit. It will go down better. But they don’t cause any good luck by itself, we still have to make it happen.

So what do we make on someone with a grand trine in their chart.  First of all they do not spell out instant fame and success or even necessarily great talent. They show three planets who are passing energy around each other in an easy,  unquestioning way. The energy goes round and round without interruption, ad nauseam….Hence the reputation of tines being lazy. For this uninterrupted current can get quite trance-like, comforting and euphoric.

The trine is rather like a massage, soothing out all those knots in your back. Sooooothing, very soothing, until your whole body becomes like jelly. It can get hypnotic. So the danger with grand trines is that they can become complacent, they don’t really have much will or drive inside them. What makes a grand trine really fly is when it contains an opposition inside it, giving it some back bone This is known as a Kite which I will talk about in another post.

A person with a grand trine may actually have chosen to incarnate and just be. This is the person to exude calm and harmony over fraught situations. They don’t want to shake things up, trines like to make you a cup of tea and say “There, there” They are happy being the sofa everyone snuggles on at the end of a hard day and there is nothing wrong with that. Grand trines used at a high vibration can be incredible healers.

On the negative side, a grand trine in the chart might indicate a person who takes the easy path and gets away with things. That could by why the trine has a lucky reputation. The native may just attract good luck, things fall into their hands without them even trying. The problem I think is that of not appreciating either the gifts they have or the good luck because they have not actually worked for it. Again this is why they are sometimes ignored; it’s just too easy.

Trine people may trigger anger from others because they appear to not even recognise or enjoy their good fortune. This can infuriate a square person who would give anything for the good looks, inheritance or freebies the trine person has had thrown at them. They can also attract jealousy also for the same reason.

There is no question that a grand trine can be a wonderful talent that can be used beneficially once it is recognized. The key is making the most of the three planets contained therein and remember to snap them out of their trance once in a while. The fire/assertive planets are less likely to zone out however, so a Jupiter/Mars/Sun trine is more likely to be a high achiever than a Moon/Neptune/Venus.

Grand Trine Celebrities

All aprox 1 deg 30′ orb.

KYLIE MYNOGUE has a sexy electric DC/Lilith/Uranus trine, which is quite obviously effortlessly magnetic.
JOAN BAEZ made great use of her gift of a Mars/Pluto/Eris trine being a folk singer and activist. Her strong vibrato uses the trine to harmonising difficult subject matter into something more palatable.
CILLA BLACK has a long and successful career as a TV personality with Mercury/Juno/Neptune she was most famous for her for her matching-making program “Blind date”.
BOB GELDOF Vertex/Moon/Eris A popular activist.
EVEL KNIEVEL Venus/Pluto/Eris Daring and dashing.
REGINALD KRAY. AC/Sun/Lilith Trines used in the negative manner, to entrance and hold mesmerised.
JANE MANSFEILD. Vertex/Ceres/Pluto. Sexy and voluptuous with pulling power.
DONALD TRUMP DC/Jupiter/Uranus. Lucky and unexpected cash good fortune through others.
TINA TURNER Sun/Pluto/Eris. Isn’t it just!
OSCAR WILDE. AC/Chiron/Uranus. The charming eccentric.
ROBIN WILLIAMS. AC/Moon/Uranus. Professional Loon.
SEAN LENNON. Sun/Ceres/DC. Famous Dad passes on his gifts.
RUSSELL CROW. Mercury/Ceres/Uranus. Gifted Actor
DAVID “Dr Who” TENNANT. Moon/Ceres/Pluto. Regeneration and time-cycles!
ROSE WEST. DC/Sun/Eris. ALISON GOLDFRAPP. Vertex/Ceres/Pluto. COURTNEY LOVE. Sun/Juno/Chiron. Dark seductive trines.
GEORGE W BUSH. AC/Lilith/Eris. Warrior Queen…
FIDEL CASTRO. Mercury/Saturn/Jupiter with Eris/Uranus in a stellium. Certainly not an inert trine there.
NICK CLEGG. Proud owner of 3 grand trines. Moon/Lilith/Jupiter,  AC/Juno/Eris and Vertex/Saturn/Neptune. Mr lucky pants.

I note the high frequency of Eris and Uranus, it seems there has to be one activating/aggressive type planet in there to make the trines more famous and successful. Of my friends I noticed more in the way of Chiron/ Neptune/Venus and these where not particularly ambitious and quite happy with their lot.

Aspects > Grand Trine.