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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.
Venus square your Sun
Venus squares your Sun across two short days, and pleasing people runs straight into being yourself. Your Sun is purpose, the self under construction; Venus is charm, taste and the hope of approval. Squared, they make you choose between them more often than usual, sometimes several times before lunch.
Sun sextile your Sun
Twice yearly the Sun comes into sextile with its own birth degree, keeping the angle about two days before moving on, and you get a mild, friendly echo of your birthday without the fuss. Your natal Sun marks the self you keep steering toward — the thing you hope people remember you by, where your pride lives, what makes a day feel properly yours. When the travelling Sun stands sixty degrees from that point, the two are on easy terms and no argument is needed.
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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