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Pluto sextile your Sun
Pluto sextiles your Sun for something close to two years, the exact contact recurring as the planet stops, reverses and moves on, and you have access to a deeper kind of strength than usual. The Sun in your chart is who you are at the centre and what you live for; Pluto works at the level of what has been buried, denied or held in check. At a sextile, Pluto's pressure becomes an invitation.
Neptune conjunct your Sun
This is one of the longest and least visible passages in a life, and the fairest warning is that you will not be able to judge how it went until it is over. The Sun is the part of the chart that says what you are — not your role or your history, but the central fact you organise everything else around. Neptune spends two to three years crossing it, and the effect is not damage.
Uranus sextile your Sun
Uranus sextiles your Sun for a year or so, sometimes longer as it slows, reverses and returns across the degree. Your Sun marks the core of you: purpose, character, the person you would defend under questioning. Uranus is what breaks habit: it brings the sudden idea and the itch to be nobody's copy.
Saturn conjunct your Sun
Saturn takes several months to clear your Sun, often touching it exactly three times in nine or ten months, and the meeting recurs roughly every twenty-nine years. Identity and aim belong to the Sun: whatever you would happily sign your name beneath. Saturn is time, weight and consequence.
Jupiter trine your Sun
For several weeks running Jupiter trines your Sun, and a retrograde close to the point can make it return on two later occasions, months apart. Your Sun sits at the middle of your chart, the purpose you would recognise as your own. Jupiter brings growth, generosity and a sense that more is possible than you had allowed for.
Mars square your Sun
Mars squares your Sun twice in each two-year circuit, and each square is over within several days unless Mars is turning retrograde nearby, when it can hang on for weeks. Your Sun stands for identity and purpose, your need to matter; Mars is drive, anger and the will to win. At a square they rub, so every obstacle feels personal and every delay feels like an insult.
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.
Sun-sign horoscopes read the sky against your Sun. For the most accurate read, also read your rising sign — if you know it, that version is usually the truer story.
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