The Sun : Spirit, center of life !
- Sign attached, Domicile : Leo
- Attached house : 5th House
- Exaltation : Aries
- Detriment : Aquarius
- Fall : Libra
- Element: Fire (hot and dry)
- Polarity : Male Yang
- Harmonic or complementary Planets (excluding Aspects) :
Moon Venus Jupiter - Cycle duration : approx. 365 days (1 year)
- Symbolizing aspect : Conjunction
- Corresponding life age : 20 to 30 years old
- Physiology : the heart
- The Sun spends about 30 days per sign and travels about 1 degree per day.
- The Sun and the Moon never retrograde.
See Planetary Rulerships.
The Sun in Astronomy
The Sun is the single central star of our solar system.
Composed of hydrogen and helium, its immense mass has allowed other planets to gravitate around it.
To better understand it, it alone represents about 99.86% of the Solar System total mass ! Planets, and asteroids included, share thus a tiny mass of 0.14%…
Technically, the Sun is a huge energy ball dispensing light and heat in gigantic proportions.
Without the sun, nothing would simply be possible.
But our Sun is just one star among billions of others in the Milky Way and the infinite universe, it’s important to be aware of that.
These few astronomical points allow a better understanding of its astrological symbolism.
See : The Sun on Wikipedia
The Sun, the fundamental core energy
The Sun is the center of individuality, it determines in the zodiac your Sun Sign.
In the Astrological Planets, it has a place at the same time separate and preponderant, let us recall that the solar system must always be considered symbolically in its integrality.
The Sun is the fundamental energetic principle. It alone, is the source of the primordial energy that radiates throughout the entire solar system and beyond. The other planets do not have their own energy, they absorb this global solar energy, to somehow “filter” it out, and they re-emit a modified form of energy according to their own astrological properties.
Each planet is a bit like a “prism”. When we say that Mars or Saturn manifests “such and such energy”, we should rather say in reality that Mars or Saturn manifests “such and such a frequency of the primitive modified global solar energy”, but it’s really the Sun the central energetic principle of life.
The planets are the Sun’s means of expression through their functions by which it expresses itself.
Animus main representative, the Sun is the will, the brazier that animates us and gives us our vitality. It is the primordial life force, the light at the origin of all creation, of all perception. It’s the heat generated that radiates and allows life in the sidereal cold.
For believers, the Sun is the permanent manifestation of God, as witnessed by the multiple sun cults in all the world’s civilizations.
The Sun is the central love, the white light that prisms can decompose into rainbow colors. By the way, isn’t this light the language of God ?
It is the gold, noble precious metal, dense, unalterable, incorruptible but malleable, the very foundation of human economy, the basis of its salubrity and relevance, condition of economic exchanges quality since the dawn of time…
The Sun, astrological planet
In the light of the above paragraphs, we can better understand the whole astrological symbolism of the Sun.
“The Self is the relationship between the Sun and the theme axes.”
Dane Rudhyar, Astrology of Personality
“The Sun is not the Self; it’s the symbol of the Self’s source of energy, i.e. Spirit, but the Self is the whole birth sky, it’s the entirety of the chart.”
Dane Rudhyar, Astrology and the Modern Psyche
Your Sun in your Birth Chart indicates what you are to become in this life, your spiritual “Self”, your personal radiation, your will, the energy and vitality that will animate you, your aspirations, your internal harmonic serenity, the temperament of your deep “Me”, but also your reactions, your honor, your notoriety, your social authority, even your glory, successes, creations, your elevation, in short, what you tend to be and to become TRULY in time.
The sun in signs in your chart is your need for Individuation in its fullness, your Zodiac sign represents the archetype of human consciousness manifested that will color the primitive solar energy function.
As “heart”, the Sun pushes the self-assertion to assume its deepest realities of being through manifested love…
To fully live one’s Sun Sign is the meaning of human incarnation. The Sun is the love that one first gives to oneself, then the love that one will know by loving others and being loved oneself.
The Sun in houses indicates a human activity area conducive to this blossoming of individuality, i.e. where there is ease of its expression, it is our territory, our fundamental predilection ground.
In Aspects and transits (see Sun in transit), the Sun has a strong power of cohesion, of integration, of synthesis (see the meaning of the Conjunction aspect).
The Aspected Planets intervene directly in the establishment and the radiation of will and individuality, they must be used as a lever in this sense to stain the expression of this solar primordial energy.
The Sun and the Moon form an important couple in astrology, the transits of these 2 luminaries have an important impact on health, vitality, individuality and daily life…
The Sun represents the father, not in the restrictive and limiting sense like Saturn, but the creator father. It also represents by Projection, the chief, the boss, the king, the Man in general (humanity).
In a man’s birth chart, the Sun is very important, so much it takes over the masculine capital values, so it is very significant.
In a woman’s birth chart, the Sun represents in addition the husband, by extension the marriage, but especially her male ideal for the union in front of God.
By all these omnipotent elements, the Sun could lead one to believe that he is self-sufficient… It is to some extent, but despite its fullness it is also connected and dependent on the rest of the Universe and its laws, it is the sense of transcendence that we find in the symbolism of the entire solar system, the quest for the Absolute where the transpersonal planets lead us : Uranus, Neptune and Pluto…
Solar personality traits
The Sun is the masculine archetype by excellency (the Yang). One finds in the character of natives marked by the Sun these elements :
Self-confidence, ambition, charisma, authority, loyalty, frankness, courage, generosity, important socio-professional role, nobility, intelligence, hope, optimism, joy, humor, material and psychological ease, calm and serene appearance, sense of harmony, justice, love, taste for mundane things and honors…
Negative Sun : proud, egocentric, authoritarian, irritable, tyrannical, narcissistic, conceited, snobbish, megalomaniac, pretentious…
Character traits found in Leo (its Domicile).
In the circle of life, the Sun represents the beginning of active life from 20 to 30 years old, the emergence of social influence, the development of self, the affirmation of individuality…