Libra

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 opposition your Sun

Across a long passage Neptune opposes your Sun, and your sense of self loses its sharp edges, slowly. When Neptune opposes your natal Sun in your chart, you are idealistic and compassionate to a fault, and you take on other people's problems as though they had been formally assigned to you. None of it happens quickly.

Uranus trine your Sun

Uranus trines your Sun for roughly a year of on-and-off contact, usually three passes, and change comes with the door held open rather than kicked in. The Sun is your centre and your purpose; Uranus is the break from habit, the new idea, the freedom to be odd. A trine lets them cooperate.

Saturn opposition your Sun

Saturn faces your Sun from across the chart for several months, often making three exact contacts as it goes retrograde and then direct, and the results of about fourteen years come to a head. Saturn needs roughly twenty-nine years for a full lap of the zodiac, and this opposition is the halfway point of its cycle with your Sun, fourteen or fifteen years after it last crossed it. The Sun is the will you steer by and the character you would claim as yours; Saturn is structure, limit and the account for whatever you set up.

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 square your Sun

The Sun squares its own birth position twice a year, roughly three months before and three months after your birthday, and for about two days the year's plans meet a test. The aims you set when this solar year began rub against what is actually happening, and the gap can show up as impatience, tiredness, or a short temper with yourself. It works as a checkpoint, not a verdict.

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 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.