posted April 02, 2013 10:42 AM            

What Noel Tyl says is a good start. An emphasis on self-sufficiency. It makes the native acquire a certain attitude toward their relationships with themselves, others and the world, depending on where the planets in the Grnd Trine fall.

Note: aspect configurations are about shared energy. So they need to involve bodies. Points like the ASC, North Node, etc. that are senstive points in your chart but not actual bodies don't count.

I like to describe us Grand Triners as tough nuts to crack. It's hard to get into our world. It's like walking around the exterior of a building and never finding a door in. It's easier in synastry to let someone in if they have a planet that conjuncts one of the planets in our natal Grand Trine, or forms another Grand Trine with our other natal planets.

Trines have gotten a bad and false rap for being too easy and thus lazy, and so a Grand Trine must be super lazy, right? Nah. But some people with Grand Trines can be unwilling to cooperate, to contribute or to participate, not out of laziness, but because they feel what they have going on for themelves is better than what others have to offer. The grass is not always greener on the other side of fence with a Grand Trine!

Some negative Grand Trine traits

-selfishness, usually unconsciously
-lack of empathy if other aspects in chart don't provide it
-overly self-involved
-aloof and inaccessible
-excessively independent
-problems asking for help or delegating, a "only I can get the job done" attitude that shut out others' contributions

On more positive sides, Grand Triners can be

-resourceful and able to accomplish a lot without asking much of others
-uniquely good at problem-solving and able to adopt a variety of approaches to the same problem (think shifting prespectives from one point in the Grand Trine to another)
-"low-maintenance" in relationships and able to give others their space
-resilient
-adaptable
-find greater ease with personal growth and development as change is less destablizing to their core sense of self

The challenge of a Grand Trine is to accept you probably don't need relationships for the same reasons that other people do, but you still can find relationships beneficial and rewarding. Also it's important for Grand Triners to respect the needs of others. We can look at other people as being too needy, dependent or involved in their relationships--we have to understand that not everyone is as self-sufficient as we are.