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Venus trine Jupiter

Venus trine Jupiter, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

Within a single chart Venus trine Jupiter is read, like the sextile, as an easy smile and a warm, responsive sense of humor, an easygoing manner that finds humor a natural part of romantic and sexual life. The tradition names the trine the more dynamic of the two harmonious Venus-Jupiter contacts, this same easy warmth arriving as a steady undertone to the personality rather than a resource called upon only when useful. Between two charts, one person's Venus trine another's Jupiter is read as one of synastry's most positive aspects, the same warmth, forgiveness and mutual confidence the tradition names for the sextile felt with the least friction of any Venus-Jupiter contact, the couple's good fortune and social ease requiring very little active maintenance to keep giving.

The story

A trine is a hundred and twenty degrees, a third of the circle; Ptolemy's chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs calls it, together with the sextile, harmonious, since the signs it joins are of the same kind, all masculine or all feminine, and Wikipedia's own summary of the aspect calls the trine extremely beneficial, indicating harmony, ease and what is natural, one of the two aspects the tradition sets against the square and opposition's discord. Aphrodite and Zeus share a family connection in the Greek sources: some accounts make her his own daughter by Dione, others give her an older birth from the sea foam gathered after Uranus's fall.

Written from

Corpus key aspect:Venus:Jupiter:trine.