Gemini

Pluto trine your Sun

Pluto trines your Sun through a long season, coming and going in three slow passes, and the force that usually arrives as pressure arrives instead as backing. The Sun stands for the centre of you: what you are for, what you will put your name to. Pluto is depth and power, the capacity to end something and begin again.

Neptune sextile your Sun

Neptune sextiles your Sun at Neptune's pace, which means at least a year, with a slow back-and-forth of several passes. The Sun is your self and your purpose; Neptune dissolves outlines, softens certainty and opens the way to imagination, compassion and faith. In a sextile the meeting is gentle and cooperative.

Uranus conjunct your Sun

Uranus sits on your Sun for the greater part of a year, occasionally more, crossing it up to three times as it moves forward, backs up and moves on, and few contacts in the sky ring a louder alarm clock. The Sun is identity and purpose: the core you would still call yourself in any company. Uranus brings shocks, unconventional turns and the long-overdue break.

Saturn sextile your Sun

Saturn sextiles your Sun across several months; a retrograde nearby can open it twice more before it closes. The Sun carries your will and your sense of who you are; Saturn adds patience, structure and a feel for what lasts. Joined by a sextile, they make slow, sensible effort on your own aims pay off, and they do it quietly, without the drama Saturn brings to its harder angles.

Jupiter sextile your Sun

For several weeks Jupiter and your Sun sit sixty degrees apart, and if Jupiter goes retrograde close to the degree the contact can repeat, making three passes in all across many months. Your Sun is what you steer by: the purpose you would put your name to. Jupiter widens things, adding optimism, generosity and room to move.

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.