Here Sun (your core self) meets North Node (your path of growth). How strongly it shows depends on the orb, the distance from the exact angle: the smaller it is, the clearer the aspect.
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Your birth date is enough. You do not need time or place here.
Your birth date is enough. You do not need time or place here.
The math runs on the Swiss Ephemeris, the same base professional astrology software is built on. The result is accurate to the arc-second, and free.
You see right away whether you have the aspect and how tight the orb is, along with a reading you can check against your own everyday life.
The same aspect also keeps forming in the current sky, and then it works as a transit. When Sun and North Node are in trine up there right now, it applies to everyone, not only to people who have this aspect in their birth chart. Here will meets direction, and the two themes flow together effortlessly and things come more easily. Depending on how fast the planets involved move, it lasts a few hours to a few days, or weeks for the slow ones.
A trine is an angle of 120°. In Sun Trine North Node it links two themes. As a trine, that means the two work together without you having to do anything. One theme: your core self. The other: your path of growth.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Aspect | Trine (120°) |
| Orb in the calculator | ± 7° |
| Typical sign distance | 4 signs |
| Character | flowing, harmonious |
| Sun | your core self |
| North Node | your path of growth |
| Needs birth time | no, the date is enough |
Continue with the overview of all astrology aspects and with Sun Conjunction North Node. Which life areas the aspect connects is shown by the house calculator. When a moving planet forms this angle to your chart, it appears in your personalized daily horoscope. The planets themselves are explained in the planets overview, and between two people the compatibility chart compares the same angles.
7.8 % of people born between 1940 and 2010 have Sun Trine North Node in their birth chart, within an orb of up to 7°. Among 711 aspect combinations that occur at all, that is number 99 by frequency. Between Sun and North Node it is the most common of the five aspects.
This is plain geometry: Sun and North Node move through the zodiac independently. A trine exists twice on the circle, once on each side. With an orb of up to 7° it covers 28° in total, which is 7.8 % of 360°. The conjunction and opposition exist only once, so they are rarer.
In the sky, Sun Trine North Node becomes exact 2.11 times a year on average. It then usually stays within 1° for 1.9 days at a stretch, 4 days a year in total. Of the 2,219 famous people in our database, 146 have it for certain, for example Salvador Dalí, Stephen Hawking and Bob Dylan.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Share of births | 7.8 % |
| Rank among all combinations | 99 / 711 |
| Orb | 7° |
| No aspect between Sun and North Node | 70 % |
| Exact in the sky per year | 2.11 |
| Days a year within 1° | 4 |
| Longest stretch within 1° | 2 days |
| Famous people (of 2,219) | 146 |
Counted with the Swiss Ephemeris: 25,933 birth charts, one for every day from 1940 to 2010 at 12:00 UT, orbs as in the calculator. Sky: every day 1900–2100. Famous people: Wikidata, only where the aspect holds for the whole birth day.
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