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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 opposition your Sun
Mars opposes your Sun across two days, sometimes three, while someone else's will comes at you head on. Your Sun carries identity and purpose, the light you steer by; Mars is heat, push and the wish to win. In opposition the heat arrives from outside: a person who wants their way, a challenge nobody asked you to accept, a remark that seems aimed at your whole character when it was probably about the washing-up.
Sun trine your Sun
About four months before your birthday, and again about four months after it, the transiting Sun trines your natal Sun; each visit is over within two or three days. The Sun is your purpose and your character, and here it meets itself at the friendliest angle available. Nothing new arrives.
Mercury trine your Sun
Mercury trines your Sun briefly, a day and sometimes two, longer when Mercury is slowing down, and what you think and who you are line up. The Sun stands at the middle of you: your will, your sense of purpose, the self you would put forward if asked to describe yourself. Mercury is the voice that explains it.
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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