☉︎ Sun in ♑︎ Capricorn
The Sun in Capricorn places the core self in a grounded, practical, slow-to-move key. Being cardinal, it wants to start things and set them moving.
Capricorn is the cardinal earth sign, ruled by Saturn. Its keynote is ambition, mastery, the mountain path. Placed here, Sun (identity and vitality) takes on that colouring, so read the two together on the Capricorn arc of the wheel.
Here selfhood, confidence, and creative vitality runs steady and concrete and initiating: the Sun shines, but in the Capricorn manner rather than any other.
At its best that shows up as a steady, generous sense of who you are, expressed the Capricorn way. Under pressure it can tip into pride that has to be the center.
When Sun is in Capricorn
Sun next enters Capricorn around 21 December 2026, staying until about 20 January 2027.
It returns to Capricorn around 22 December 2027 (through about 20 January 2028).
It returns to Capricorn around 21 December 2028 (through about 19 January 2029).
Dates computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Sun’s aspects today
| Sun sextile Mars | orb 3.4° |
| Sun square Uranus | orb 7.0° |
| Sun conjunction Mercury | orb 7.8° |
Sun through the other signs
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♋︎ Cancer
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
Tradition and interpretation, not prediction. See Sun or the sign of Capricorn.