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☉︎ Sun
Identity and vitality.
The center of the chart as of the sky: the Sun marks identity, vitality, and the sign most people mean when they name "their" sign.
Right now
Sun stands at 22° Cancer. Drag it on the live clock to travel through time.
Current aspects
| Sun conjunction Mercury | orb 3.2° |
| Sun conjunction Moon | orb 9.4° |
| Sun square Saturn | orb 8.0° |
When the Sun and Mercury meet at the same point of the wheel, warmth and purpose fuses with quickness and wit, for better and for worse.
The Sun is the core self: its territory is identity, vitality, and the will to shine. It gives warmth and purpose, it wants something to illuminate, and its shadow is pride.
On the clock, the Sun takes about a month in each sign and a year around the whole wheel. It never turns retrograde: the Sun is the steady frame the other bodies loop against.
At its best the Sun gives a steady, generous sense of who you are; under strain the same force becomes pride that has to be the center.
Dignities
Sun traditionally rules Leo. It is exalted in Aries, its strongest placement by tradition.
Sun in each sign
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♋︎ Cancer
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
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