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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Planets and points · Beginner

Sun

Also called ☉

The star at the centre of the solar system; in a chart, the sign it occupied is the familiar “star sign”.

The Sun takes a year to go once round the zodiac, so its sign depends mainly on the birthday. Astrologers associate it with identity, vitality and what a person is trying to become, and traditionally with the father and authority. It is never retrograde as seen from Earth.

The astronomy
It moves about 1° a day along the ecliptic.
How astrologers read it
Astrologers associate the Sun with purpose, self-expression and the centre of a chart.
  • Kind: Astronomy, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Luminaries, Sun sign, Big Three, Cazimi, Combust

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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