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.
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.
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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