Earth Grand Trine: Parental Material Hardship

My son, Nathan, has an Earth Grand Trine that involves his Sun, Moon, Asc, Mercury and Mars. I was thinking about the relevance of this configuration and his parents (Sun and Moon) material hardship. Earth is the element we associate with money, work and career, and the trine aspect is the easiest of contacts. For a large part of his early years we have been struggling with financial debt, and most of it accumulated after we bought a new house and needed a large deposit. According to astrologer Noel Tyl, the Earth Grand Trine represents a closed circuit of practical self-sufficiency. Tyl went on to give an example of a woman who was raising a family alone, and had a defence structure against being exploited by others and had the strength to go it alone, saying that the grand trine, made it easier for her to cope. As parents we have coped well with the pressure and my partner is completely changing career to give the family a better future. The majority of Astrologers are poor, unless they have another job, so there is not much hope on my side for finances. The last statement may be a wrong statistical guess. I have the ’opinion’ that America, have it much easier earning a living out of astrology, but I could be completely wrong.

I was looking at other astrological charts that contained  Earth Grand Trines, and Catherine Zeta Jones has an Earth Grand Trine configuration in her horoscope. Catherine’s parents are described as working class parents. However, as I researched further, I found that her father was a sweet factory owner and her mother an Irish seamstress. Catherine’s’ parents won £100, 000 at Bingo in the 1980’s, and they moved to the ‘upper-class’ area of Swansea. Her parents certainly had a material change in fortune, which was handed to them on a plate. Venus is in Virgo (fall) in the 8th house trine Mars in Capricorn (exalted) in the 1st house and Saturn in Taurus is in the 4th house, so there is some link to family and wealth (4th/8th). Mars looks the strongest planet in the trine. Mars is exalted and placed in the house that it rules. It is also at the apex of a t-square. Catherine is hardworking, ambitious and extremely driven. Although, it has been suggested that her career breaks have been ’fortunate’. Catherine’s marriage is successful and she has been married to Michael Douglas for 10 years. The marriage and its publicity, earned quite a significant amount of money: Of course, to state the obvious, not all wealthy people have grand trines in earth.

Plenty of controversy surrounded the couple's wedding in late 2000. They'd been paid $900,000 by OK Magazine for exclusive pictures of the newly born Dylan. Now they accepted a further $1.5 million for exclusive shots of the wedding, a helpful amount as the proceedings at the New York Plaza would cost $1.8 million, including $10,000 for the four-foot cake. Unfortunately, Hello Magazine got hold of pictures and published, the Douglases attempting to take out an immediate injunction. Eventually, they sued for damages and the case stretched on till 2003, when they were awarded $23,000 (OK! got $1.6 million). Even then it wasn't over, with Hello! Deciding to appeal and the case would go as far as the House of Lords in 2007, with Hello! eventually having to pay OK! around $4 million in damages and court costs.

Now financially secure for life (it's said Catherine's pre-nup with Douglas gives her $3.2 million for every year of the marriage), she continued to win prime roles.

I looked into Irish Mcalla’s Grand Earth Trine on this blog. And it was revealed in an interview, that she lived a ‘charmed’ life and that things just seemed to happen without her trying. There was another French actress, France Nuyen, with a grand trine in earth and she was just sitting on the beach when "Life" magazine photographer, discovered her and she became a successful actress. Rebel Without a Cause Director, Nicholas Ray, also has a grand trine in earth. The Moon and Uranus are conjunct in Capricorn in the 11th house in his horoscope and are part of the grand trine configuration. It has been said that Rebel Without a Cause was a film that showed empathy (Moon) for social misfits (Uranus) and financially (earth), this film was his biggest commercial success. However, he did display some shocking behaviour, too, and was caught smoking marijuana with his students. There was a documentary filmed about the last days of his life - entitled, Lightning (Uranus) over water (Moon). There are more interesting examples, but I wanted to learn more about their early childhood and what type of experiences they had. In one of Carter’s book, Encyclopedia of Astrology:

Despite the grand trine in earth, the native was a poor child rescued from the streets by the Salvation Army.