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Venus trine Mars

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

What the tradition reads

Within a single chart Venus trine Mars is read, together with the sextile, as one of the pairing's easy contacts, and sources describe the trine as the more dynamic of the two: Cafe Astrology's natal reading says it is "easy for these people to attract attention of the positive kind," radiating "charm, vitality, and enthusiasm," and adds that a person with the trine has "incorporated the traits of the aspect into their personalities, expressing them naturally and consistently" rather than needing to call on them by effort. Between two charts, one person's Venus trine another's Mars is read as warmly compatible: Cafe Astrology's synastry reading says "romantic feelings are strong and you are very compatible physically and intimately."

The story

A trine sets two bodies at the triangular distance from each other, four signs or one hundred twenty degrees apart; Ptolemy's chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs names it, together with the sextile, harmonious, since the signs it joins share the same gender. At the widest of the tradition's easy angles, Aphrodite and Ares again answer to the idealized Roman couple rather than the exposed Greek affair, the depictions that, as Wikipedia's account of Mars notes, "often ignore the adulterous implications." Here the tradition reads the pairing as settled fully into temperament, wanting and pursuit no longer needing an invitation at all.

Written from

Corpus key aspect:Venus:Mars:trine.