Your core self is shaped by feeling and belonging.
Neptune square your Sun
Neptune squares your Sun, and the stretch it covers is long and uneven: a year at the very least and often nearer two, with exactness reached on three passes or more as Neptune creeps forward and drifts back. Your Sun is the outline of you: your purpose, the things you would stand up and defend, the direction you assume you are heading in. Neptune dissolves outlines; it works through fog and longing and a slow loss of edges.
Saturn square your Sun
Most of a year can go by while Saturn squares your Sun, with the exact square usually landing three times as Saturn loops backward and forward over the degree, and the whole stretch feels uphill. Your Sun stands for the self you intend to grow into, and for the aims you would defend in public. Saturn deals in limits, time and proof.
Mars conjunct your Sun
Mars crosses your Sun, a brief, hot contact, and energy, confidence and impatience all rise together. As transiting Mars aligns with your natal Sun, you are more tuned to your own drive and your own nerve than you have been in a long time. The signal that you are pushing too hard is usually social rather than anything else: people start managing you, and you notice them doing it.
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.
Mercury sextile your Sun
Mercury's sextile to your Sun lasts two days or thereabouts; while it does, your mind is quick and your confidence easy to find. Mercury is the mind putting itself into words; the Sun is the person behind them. A sextile keeps them on friendly terms, so what you say sounds like you, which is rarer than it should be and worth spending on something that matters.
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.
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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