Aquarius

Pluto conjunct your Sun

Pluto occupies your Sun for roughly two years, reaching the exact degree at least three times as its retrograde loops swing it over the spot again, and the pressure lands on the centre of the chart. Your Sun is shorthand for the self you return to when no role is required of you: your purpose, your will and the place you act from. Pluto works slowly and from underneath, stripping away whatever cannot bear its weight.

Neptune sextile your Sun

Neptune sextiles your Sun at Neptune's pace, which means at least a year, with a slow back-and-forth of several passes. The Sun is your self and your purpose; Neptune dissolves outlines, softens certainty and opens the way to imagination, compassion and faith. In a sextile the meeting is gentle and cooperative.

Uranus trine your Sun

Uranus trines your Sun for roughly a year of on-and-off contact, usually three passes, and change comes with the door held open rather than kicked in. The Sun is your centre and your purpose; Uranus is the break from habit, the new idea, the freedom to be odd. A trine lets them cooperate.

Saturn sextile your Sun

Saturn sextiles your Sun across several months; a retrograde nearby can open it twice more before it closes. The Sun carries your will and your sense of who you are; Saturn adds patience, structure and a feel for what lasts. Joined by a sextile, they make slow, sensible effort on your own aims pay off, and they do it quietly, without the drama Saturn brings to its harder angles.

Jupiter opposition your Sun

Jupiter opposes your Sun, typically for some weeks; a retrograde can bring it across the point three times over several months, so the theme returns rather than passing once. Jupiter makes whatever it meets bigger, and here it meets your Sun, the self at your centre. Facing each other, they turn the volume up on everything around you, mostly through other people — the generous friend with a large plan, the confident stranger, the offer that sounds a size too big — and invite you to say yes to it.

Sun opposition your Sun

Every year, for two days and seldom longer than three, the Sun opposes your own Sun. This is the half-birthday — the Sun exactly opposite where it stood when you were born — and halfway is not a resting place. Your birth Sun works as the steering self, the core that asks to be seen and counted.

Venus trine your Sun

Venus trines your Sun, a brief and gentle contact, and while it lasts pleasure and affection flow easily toward you. The things you do simply because they are yours — your style, your efforts, your way of being — are met with unusual warmth. What eases is the effort of being liked.

Mercury opposition your Sun

Mercury opposes your Sun for about two days, stretched further when Mercury slows to a halt near the degree, and other people's opinions crowd in on your own. Mercury is thought, talk and the traffic of messages; the Sun, the self underneath, has intentions of its own. Across an opposition the talk comes at you from outside, and what people say may not match what you know to be true.