Grand Trine Activations Study
A Grand Trine in the sky is impersonal until it touches your natal positions, and a Grand Trine Activations study returns the occasions on which it does.
The study generates an event each time three transiting bodies form a Grand Trine with at least one of them within orb of a natal body. Every event records the three transiting bodies, the separations between them, the natal body being activated and the moment the configuration forms.
Create a Grand Trine Activations Study
To add a Grand Trine Activations study to the current workspace:
- Click Transit Studies → Grand Trine Activations on the menu bar.
Alternatively, click the Aspect Patterns drop-down button on the toolbar and select Grand Trine Activations from its flyout.
The new study appears at the bottom of the Studies list and is selected automatically, so its settings open immediately. It takes its name from the study type.
What This Study Finds
Grand Trine Activations is an activation study rather than a transiting one, and the distinction decides what counts as an event. The Grand Trine is formed by three transiting bodies in their own right, entirely in the sky, and no natal body takes part in the figure. What makes it an activation is that at least one of those three bodies is conjunct a natal body, within orb, while the figure holds, and it is that contact which activates the natal body. In a transiting study such as Transiting Aspects, by contrast, the natal body is one end of the aspect itself.
The study carries two orbs, and they do different jobs. The Aspect Orb, on the Ephemeris tab, sets how far from exact the trines that make up the figure may be for the Grand Trine to count as formed. The Transit Orb, on the Natal Data tab, sets how close a transiting body must be to a natal body for the activating contact to register. See Orb Settings for how the orb fields behave.
The settings column lays the study out on two tab controls. The first carries an Ephemeris tab holding the shared ephemeris settings panel, the date-range panel and the Aspect Orb, and a Natal Data tab holding the natal record fields and the Transit Orb. The second splits the study's four body lists two per tab: an Inner & Middle Bodies tab holding the Inner Bodies and Middle Bodies lists side by side, and an Outer & Natal Bodies tab holding the Outer Bodies and Natal Bodies lists side by side.
Events Table Columns
The events table shows the columns below. Several columns are hidden by default, as the table notes. Right-click any column header to show or hide a column, as described in Choose Events Table Columns. The headers of the coordinate columns follow the study's Reference Plane: they read Longitude and Latitude in the ecliptic plane, and Right Asc and Declination in the equatorial plane. The ecliptic-plane header text is listed here. The numbered body columns follow the order of the body lists they are drawn from, from the inner list outward.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| Date Time | Date and time the configuration perfects, in the application's long date-time format. Always the first column, and it cannot be moved. Visible by default. |
| Body1 | Name of the first body in the figure, drawn from the Inner Bodies list. Visible by default. |
| Body1 Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Body1 Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Body1 Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Body1 Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Body1 Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Separation Body(1-2) | Angular separation between the first and second bodies, in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Body2 | Name of the second body in the figure, drawn from the Middle Bodies list. Visible by default. |
| Body2 Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Body2 Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Body2 Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Body2 Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Body2 Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Separation Body(2-3) | Angular separation between the second and third bodies, in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Body3 | Name of the third body in the figure, drawn from the Outer Bodies list. Visible by default. |
| Body3 Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Body3 Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Body3 Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Body3 Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Body3 Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Separation Body(3-1) | Angular separation between the third and first bodies, in degrees. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body | Name of the natal body being activated. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Longitude | Primary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Sign | Position as degrees, sign and minutes of the zodiac. Visible by default. |
| Natal Body Latitude | Secondary coordinate in degrees. Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Distance | Radial distance in astronomical units (AU). Hidden by default. |
| Natal Body Speed | Speed in degrees per day. Hidden by default. |
| Event Interval | Elapsed time since the previous event in the list. Hidden by default. |