May 3 | Kite Pattern, Venus into Aries TODAY'S entry will be brief: in a little while I need to wrap up my stand-in for Jonathan (always a busy week) as well as move the usual planets along -- a short edition of Astrology Secrets as well as Planet Waves Weekly. In Astrology Secrets, I'll be posting the charts for Beltane and then the Cancer ingress of the Sun (solstice) with a brief explanation of the aspects. One of them looks like a grand trine, and includes a grand trine in the water signs: Mars trine Jupiter trine Uranus. I have not measured how tight the aspect is, and I haven't seen the exact chart (I'm looking at a chart animation for right now). But it's pretty tight in the Beltane chart. But the Sun is in mid-Taurus and it's aspecting all the watery planets from an earthy sign, so that you get a triangle with an extra point at one end, making it look like a kite. This provides the ease and flow of a grand trine without the Bermuda Triangle feeling; you get all the water, but with the Sun grounding the experience in an the earthy element. Today we also have Venus transiting into Aries. I touched on this briefly yesterday, but we get Venus beginning a new cycle of the zodiac as well as an Aries Point event that brings in the North Node of the Moon. The Aries Point normally has strong momentum; the node is exaggerating this effect. This will be a very good day to watch the news, and our lives, with an intuitive mirror and see what we notice. My daily horoscope interpretations looking at this astrology are at http://cainer.com/ and the edition has just been mailed to all subscribers.   More on grand trines: http://www.planetwaves.net/cainer/archive/001600.php In a natal chart: http://www.planetwaves.net/cainer/archive/001500.php