Aries

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.

Sun square your Sun

The Sun squares its own birth position twice a year, roughly three months before and three months after your birthday, and for about two days the year's plans meet a test. The aims you set when this solar year began rub against what is actually happening, and the gap can show up as impatience, tiredness, or a short temper with yourself. It works as a checkpoint, not a verdict.

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 square your Sun

Mercury squares your Sun briefly, two days at most, and your meaning and your words come slightly apart. Explanations land crooked, messages get misread, and a point sometimes has to be made twice because it did not land the first time, which is its own irritation. This is easily taken personally, as if your ability to express yourself had suddenly failed.