The Sun: Your Ego
| Think beach, blue skies, sunlight spilling across the white sand. The Sun is the very essence and energy of life, the manifestation of will, power, and desire. It represents the ego, individuality, the yang principle and is the thrust that allows us to meet challenges and expand our lives. The Sun represents a person's creative abilities and the general state of his or her physical health. The Sun embraces the fatherhood principle and in a chart, symbolizes a person's natural father and a woman's husband. A natural ruler of the fifth house, it rules children in general and the firstborn in particular. Since the Sun also symbolizes authority and power, a strongly placed Sun confers leadership ability. A Sun that is badly aspected or which is weakly placed lessens the natural vitality and may make it difficult for the person to express basic drives and desires. The Sun spends about a month in each sign, which a mean daily motion of 59'8". It rules occupations of power and authority .. royalty and religious rulers. Its natural house is the fifth and it governs the sign of Leo. It rules the heart, back, spine, and spinal cord. The three most important elements in the fully-calculated birth chart are the Rising-sign , Sun-sign and Moon-sign. If you were born at or near sunrise, your Sun and Rising sign will be the same. This will double the emphasis of the characteristics of that sign on your personality, but do not forget that those characteristics will still work on two distinct levels of your personality. Similarly, if you were born at the time of the new Moon, your Sun and Moon signs will be the same, but again working on two levels. In both cases, you will be known as a *double* Aries, Aquarius, or whatever. The Sun sign denotes our self-expression, and its characteristics relate to the way in which we present ourselves to the world. It can also have a very strong bearing on the way we look .. our overall image. Find *your* sun sign from the main page, for a further description. |