This is a re-post!
Easy for me to do: I don’t have that many! Trines are ease, trines are flow, with a trine you don’t even have to fiddle with the doorknob; the door magically opens! Has this been your experience?
And then there’s the story about the dude with so many trines that he got lazy and did nothing, achieved nothing. I do believe these types exist and some of them pay for it (ooh that sounds harsh, doesn’t it?) and some of them are just… happy. Happy is good, right?
Yeah, I’d like some more trines. So I wait for transits 
My chart is sextile-heavy, which is… okay. I wrote a post about this once, about the sextile being overrated but I think I was having a grass-is-greener moment. Or frustrated at watching a close friend keep winning those scratch-off Lotto games. He’s got Venus trine Jupiter. Then again I think of another friend with… mostly squares and oppositions. Maybe ONE sextile or ONE trine. And it is indeed harder for her to… pick herself up after hard times? Find her purpose? It’s just harder. And it hurts to watch someone struggle. We all need support from somewhere/someone.
With a trine, you know that things will get better. Or are fine as they are.
Can you find the trines in your chart?
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5 thoughts on “Follow Your Trines!”
I’ve got six trines, but it’s my squares that run my life, not my trines. I might be taking the trines I have for granted or maybe I’m not even aware of having these “positive” personality traits. Most of the times, when I read about the caracteristics of those particular trines, I don’t feel like they apply to me. Or maybe it’s just they can’t get through because of all the squares. I don’t know…
Personally, I prefer squares. For some reason, they seem to bring me more good fortune (when transiting) than trines – perhaps it is just my personal perspective, learning to seek out and appreciate life’s challenges. I firmly believe that the greater the challenge, struggle, hardship, etc, the greater the potential reward – learning, growth, strengthening. Perhaps it’s Saturn conjunct my Ascendent that makes me talk like that! I just feel that I have come so much farther in life because of being challenged, and every day that I notice a difficulty somewhere (a struggle inside myself), I see it as an opportunity for growth and learning – and without fail, when I seek out the lesson hidden within the hardship, I find it. It’s like unwrapping a present, and finding the gift inside.
I guess I see trines as always having the temperature at a perfectly comfortable 70 degrees – it narrows our comfort level so that when we then go outside and experience cold or heat, we are that much more uncomfortable. Whereas I see squares as like challenging ourselves by learning to adapt to varying temperatures, pushing our comfort zone to expand so that we can handle (comfortably) so much more. Does that makes sense?
Makes sense. I think I know what you’re saying. I have encountered people who are very ra-ra about their squares and others who are ra-ra (rah?) about “easy” aspects. I think the chart kinda determines this….
I have very few trines in my natal, and I totally get what you are saying about your one friend who has struggled. I have struggled so much my lovely Libra friend gets upset and says it is unfair how hard my life has been, then exclaims that I should write a screenplay of it.
I don’t mind though. I’m having plenty of trines by transit lately, and I have become lazy. I’ll take my squares and oppositions any day. 😛
I have a whole bunch of Trines in my chart, including 4 Grand Trines. Have things been easy…not really. I’ve been lucky many times in my life but it has in no way been a breeze. An example…I was fortunate to be awarded not one but two full scholarships for my undergrad and graduate studies at top tier schools but I had to work really hard in order to be recognized in this way.
Also, since I finish Graduate school I have not been able to find work in my field due to economic cutbacks – they are just not hiring. I have applied to all sorts of positions outside of my field only to be told I’m overqualified because of my higher degree and I’m therefore rejected. I’ve found a few short term temp jobs and occasional translation work, where my background and degrees don’t really come into play. I am barely making any money. I made a lot more before I even had either of my degrees. So it hasn’t been easy. However, I’m still hopeful. I guess those are my Trines talking!