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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.
Pluto sextile your Sun
Pluto sextiles your Sun for something close to two years, the exact contact recurring as the planet stops, reverses and moves on, and you have access to a deeper kind of strength than usual. The Sun in your chart is who you are at the centre and what you live for; Pluto works at the level of what has been buried, denied or held in check.
Neptune conjunct your Sun
This is one of the longest and least visible passages in a life, and the fairest warning is that you will not be able to judge how it went until it is over. The Sun is the part of the chart that says what you are — not your role or your history, but the central fact you organise everything else around.
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.
Saturn conjunct your Sun
Saturn takes several months to clear your Sun, often touching it exactly three times in nine or ten months, and the meeting recurs roughly every twenty-nine years. Identity and aim belong to the Sun: whatever you would happily sign your name beneath.
Jupiter trine your Sun
For several weeks running Jupiter trines your Sun, and a retrograde close to the point can make it return on two later occasions, months apart. Your Sun sits at the middle of your chart, the purpose you would recognise as your own.
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.