The grand trine though is innate, asking the native to describe the experience of their grand trine is like asking them to bite their own teeth, it is utterly subjective, especially where personal planets are involved. Thus the native with a grand water trine can be quite comfortable with the notion that their feelings are quite simply the only feelings that matter in the world, and anyone looking in simply could not grasp the subjective sense of it. Without squares there is no self-doubt, without opposition there is no requirement for relating the native with the Grand Trine can experience these planets exactly however they want and they require no external validation. In my experience, the Grand Trine configured without some sense of urgency in the form of squares, or outright adversarial impetuses from others in the form of oppositions to any of those self-same loci, can easily devolve into a peculiar form of myopic self-obsession, characterised by the onlooker as aloofness, an unwillingness to participate or just outright arrogance. My own suspicion was distilled by the thinking of Noel Tyl who uttered the immortal wisdom that “all aspects are squares” (or somesuch) and that includes trines of course because a trine that is taken for granted and remains untapped by any driving factor soon breaks down, indulgence follows on, then laziness sets in, and before much longer the aspect has degenerated into something positively hedonistic. The grand trine can give enormous benefit which everyone but the owner of the pattern can see clearly.

Even astrologers get drawn in to this self-same conclusion, but my experience (which is very often at odds with the received wisdom of astrology) continually hit a bum note wherever the Grand Trine was in evidence I do not doubt for a moment that the Grand Trine is subjectively fantastic but for everyone else, it’s probably only just short of infuriating, although not necessarily for entirely negative reasons. Luckily, they land on their feet soon enough, as opportunity has a way of finding them wherever they go.The Grand Trine: even the moniker creates a regal ambience if you could buy and sell aspect patterns on Ebay then there’s little doubt that the beautifully equilateral one would conjure as much interest as any possible configuration, excepting possibly the Golden Yod (which everyone in the know would want but would have no clue how to use). However, Grand Trine people can find themselves unprepared when the going gets tough, as they may not develop the necessary character and skills to pull off their magic tricks during lean times. They can be phenomenal artists and creatives. They are charismatic and often become public figures and spokespeople, as they have an easy and natural magnetism about them. Huge successes come easily to them-often to their own bewilderment, because it happens with little effort. People born with a Grand Trine in their birth charts are often naturally lucky. What does it mean if you have a Grand Trine in your birth chart? These are golden moments to break down barriers and lift everyone up to new heights of happiness and unity. These moments of harmony can spark major artistic inventions, progress around world peace and massive communication openings.

In a Grand Trine, all three planets involved share the same element-either fire, earth, air or water. Breakthrough! The rare and flowing Grand Trine occurs when three planets align in a perfect equilateral triangle, making 120-degree angles (trines) to each other.

Watery grand trine