Your core self wants to shine, create, and give warmth from the centre.
Pluto opposition your Sun
Pluto opposing your Sun applies steady pressure to who you take yourself to be, and it applies that pressure through a person: somebody with leverage over your situation, or somebody who simply refuses to see you the way you would prefer to be seen. Situations arrive that test your self-image, and decisions that would normally be small start to feel weighted with consequence. Old fears and long-buried truths come up with an urgency you cannot schedule.
Neptune trine your Sun
Neptune trines your Sun: the compassionate, idealistic side of you comes forward, and for a while you see your own life through a wider and kinder lens than you usually allow. This long, soft passage asks very little of you except attention. It surfaces as a lighter grip on who you take yourself to be.
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 trine your Sun
For several months, and longer when Saturn's backward loop carries it over the same degree a second and third time, Saturn trines your Sun and effort starts turning into results without the usual grinding. Your Sun is your purpose, the person you spend your days being; Saturn supplies patience, form and a liking for the long view. In trine the two cooperate.
Jupiter conjunct your Sun
Jupiter crosses your Sun, a passage of a few weeks that can stretch to three crossings across several months when Jupiter turns retrograde near the spot. Your Sun is the core of you, the self you would recognise in a mirror and the purpose you would defend; Jupiter enlarges, encourages and opens doors. Fused together, they make you larger.
Venus sextile your Sun
Venus sextiles your Sun across a couple of days, stretched to a week now and then when Venus slows to a crawl, and pleasure, warmth and charm come easier. Your Sun is your character and your aims; Venus is affection, beauty and enjoyment. A sextile makes them friendly without forcing anything.
Mercury conjunct your Sun
Mercury crosses your Sun about once a year, normally over a day or two, stretching to a week when it slows to turn retrograde close by. Your Sun is where you live from — what you mean, what you are for. Mercury is the mind in words: thinking, talking, writing, the quick sorting of what you hear.
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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