Sun
rules Leo · day: Sunday
Identity · Vitality · Radiance
✦ The essence of the Sun ✦
The Sun is not a planet like the others. It is the centre, the point everything else arranges itself around. In astrology it stands for your deep identity, your vitality, what you came here to accomplish. It is the one answering when someone asks what your sign is: your Sun sign, the heart of your birth chart. Where the Sun shines, you want to exist fully, to create, to be seen for who you really are.
In your chart
Your Sun describes your essential nature: the direction of your life, the way you shine, what recharges you. A Sun lived fully gives a quiet confidence. A Sun ignored leaves the feeling of walking past your own life.
Does the Sun retrograde?
Never. Seen from Earth, the Sun does not move backwards: it is the fixed point against which every other retrograde is drawn. If an app ever announces a Sun retrograde, change the app.
✦ The sign it rules ✦
The Sun
In the tradition, the Sun answers to The Sun, the card of joy without shadow, clear success and life lived in the open. This card colours the way the planet acts in your sky.
The planets are one half of the language of the sky. Keep exploring with the ten planets, or discover the other way the invisible catches your attention, the angel numbers.