| Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| Double Grand Trine (Astrology Lesson) |
OK.. for those not too familiar with astrology (or heck maybe even if you are). Grand Trines usually occur within astrological charts once a month.
What is a Grand Trine, you ask?
Well this goes way back to your grade school science clasess. Specifically think of when you learned all about planets and thier orbits and all that jazz. Each planet has a different orbit around the sun based on it's distance from the sun, the size of the planet, etc.
Occasionally, the orbits cause the plaets to line up in specific ways. I guess the easiest way to explain this is to reference the anomaly of an eclipse (though it is unrealted to trines) in which for example the moon lines up between the sun and the earth and blocks our view of the sun (solar eclipse) or the moon moves into a position in whih the earth blocks the sun from hitting the moon (lunar eclipse).
Well this happens with planets as well sometimes they line up and sometimes they make funky patterns and angles. When three planets enter the atrological chart at perfect 120 degree angles (forming a triangle) it is called a trine.
When thinking of the horoscope, certain planets are associated with certain signs, and certain signs are assigned various elements, so therefore each planet is given an element based on the sign it rules (for example Leo is ruled by the sun, Leo is considered a fire sign because it is a symbol of power, but also it makes sense that it is a fire sign because it is ruled by the sun {which is one big ball of fire!}).
So it end up working out like this:
Fire Signs/Planets: Aries (Mars), Leo (Sun), and Sagittarius (Jupiter). Now if you think on it the two planets (technically the sun is a star and it's already been covered anyways above) are both "red" planets in appearence.. so it seems logical that that astrologists would contribute to them the properties of fire. Also the signs associated with them all have some sort of warrior propety (Leo, the lion, king and carnivore; Aries, the ram, able to hold his won, and Sagittarius, the hunter). Also it is important to note (I'll tell you in a bit why) the months these signs represent: Aries (3/21-4/19), Leo (7/23-8/22) and Sagittarius (11/22-12/21)
Water Signs/Planets: Cancer, the crab 6/22-7/22 (Moon); Scorpio, the scorpion 10/23-11/21 (Pluto); and Pisces, the fish 2/19-3/20 (Neptune). This is a bit confusing, as the ruling planets for both Scorpio and Pisces were also Mars and Jupiter at some point (before the discovery of Pluto and Neptune). Water signs are usually people are imaginative and reserved. Literally they "go with the flow" or thier "still waters run deep".
EarthSigns/Planets: Taurus, the bull 4/20-5/20 (Venus); Virgo, the virgin 8/23-9/22 (Mercury); and Capricorn, the goat 12/22-1/19 (Saturn). Again Virgo is a bit of a weird deal as she shares a ruling planet with Gemini. This is partially due to there not having been enough planets discovered (though in theory if we were to discover one, it is tentatively to be called Vulcan.. and yeah all you Trekkies are totally geeking out on me right now). Also due to a shift in the equinoxes (called a precession: it's another one of those science things the earth not only goes around on it's axis, but the axis also moves as well shifting the equinoxes every so often to higher/lower points.. I could go into more detail... but trust me it's a bit boring unless you're into that kind of thing) Virgo (the sign) doesn't always lign up with Virgo (the constellation). Anyway I'm getting off the point I think. Earth signs, much like the animals that represent them (well two of them.. again that Virgo girl is such an anomaly, esp. since she's the only lovely lady and all) are supposed to be hard-working, stron-willed, practical, etc.
Latly are the Air/Signs: Gemini, the twins 5/21-6/21 (Mercury); Libra, the scales 9/23-10/22 (Venus); and Aquarius, the water carrier 1/20-2/18 (Saturn). As you can see we've got another carryover on the planets here as Libra and Taurus share one (no potential altrinative for Libra at this time) as well as Aquarius sharing with Capricorn (though it is strongly being considered that Uranus should rule Aquarius). I find the air signs a bit interesting as they are the only group that does not have any animal avatars. Also I have sometimes an arguement on placement as Aquarius seems to me that it should be a Water sign, Scorpio a fire sign (maybe?), Virgo perhaps an Air sign, and Aries an Earth sign (but that's just my personal opinion and would involve shifting things a bit too much for it to really work).
Anyways wasn't really meaning to give you so much explanation about all that bit of it.. so back to what I was actually talking about, the trine thing. As I told you to notice, the different element signs are all approximately four months apart. Thius sort of makes them form a natural triangle with each other (give or take a few days) anyways. When the three planets in the trine are of the same element, it is called a True Grand Trine.
The case this weekend is a special exception as two different trines occur. this actually began Thursday. Right now (and actually for a while) both Saturn and Pluto move very slowly and so are more or less consistently forming two parts of a trine (this is why i say a trine occurs every month, as some planet inevitable makes the third point, even if for only a brief moment). On Thursday Mercury entered Taurus, and tomorrow night (Satuday) the Sun enters Taurus, essentially causing two consecutive trines within a three day period.
What the hell it all means? Well I'm kind of still new at this, so certainly I don't expect you to buy what I'm selling here. Typically there are two opposing schools regarding what trines actually accomplish. The first belief is that because things are "synched" up so to speak that trines are a period of realtive ease in which things and projects are more easily done. The second school of thought here is because the energy is so free and easy going, that in fact a trine makes us less motivated. In otherwords, because it's easy to get things done it's easier to become complacent and not take full advantage of the beneficial energy trines can provide. I am of the second school of thoguht on this one. Like for example in my writing, I am finding it a lot harder to focus my thoughts then I normally would, but at the same time the thoughts are coming to me more easily (which is hence why it's harder to focus). Essentially it's a double sided sword because you will feel more inspired but unless you know what's going on you won't know how to fight the negative aspects of the trine. For some people this will be opposition (things will seem to go well because of the trine, thoughts will flow tasks will be accomplished so it will be a big shock when all of a sudden some unexpected obstical gets in your way.. and it will be easy for you to get discouraged. But of course being armed with this knowledge, you will now be less discouraged when it happens and more able to deal with it). For others (liek me) it will be some inability in either focus or discipline, you might have so many ideas that it's imppossible to physically accomplish them all, and you either won't think to say write some of your ideas down for later, or if you do think to write it down will have the inability to do it in a manner that it will make sense to you later on. So in other words if you have some really great idea come to you today or tomorrow, fight for that, no matter how hard it seems, because if you can overcome the negative aspects of the trine then it may possibly turn into the best idea you've had yet.
OK for real I'm totally goign to start learning how to make my own charts... new hobby (whee). |
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