This was a desperate and totally calculated move.

Practicality, matter, material things and their substance, possessions in general, stability, common sense, and the direct, sensual experience of what is. Earth also represents the constraints that the physical universe and what being in a mortal body place upon us, as well as fertility manifesting in new forms. These practical, material aspects of human nature are emphasized in ones character through the energies of the planets comprising the Grand Earth Trine. A Grand Earth Trine symbolizes therefore a great practicality and a certain genius with money and material things.