The SUN expresses our personal identity and awareness of conscious personality. It represents the realization of the ‘self’, the essence of ‘being’, and the vitality of life. Through the Sun we express our own individuality in a creative way. It symbolizes our life expression, the way we actively participate in worldly matters. It constitutes the ego of the person, the aspirations, the Will.
Knowing who we are and being able to find a special place in life is probably the most powerful drive in the human psyche. People want to express themselves in the world in an individualistic and personal way. It is through the Sun that we personalize our experiences, because we have a sense of an inner "I". This determines what is relevant to each of us. So the Sun is our reality as we might understand it externally.
It is the male share of the personality, Yang, it represents all the male roles (the father, the husband, the head, etc). It makes it possible to interpret the image of the father and the man in general, the type of relation with them (that the subject is man or woman). However it seems to be more present in the topic of a man, since it represents all the male and positive values.
It is a star of heat, life, light, it thus emphasizes courage, honesty, the nobility, generosity but also pride, irritability, self-centredness.
In the topic of a woman, it tends to symbolize the father later then the husband even if it is always present in the personality of the woman: the Sun represents its ideal of man.
In the life, it represents youth, where his studies are finished, filled of ambition and hope.
MYTHOLOGY:
The Sun and Moon are the oldest and most visible of all mythological symbols. The male and female principles made visible in the sky.
Modern science has proven that without the sun life could not exist on Earth – something that mankind has known from earliest times!
From the astronomical calendar of Stonehenge, through to ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Mayans, Incas; we know that Man has worshipped the Sun.
Usually taken as a male symbol – often partnered with the female Moon – the Sun is universally a symbol of power.
Known by many names throughout history, the sun god is often transformed into the head of the pantheon of gods in polytheistic religions. The solar principle has been personified by Brahma to the Hindus, Mithra to the Persians, Quetzalcoatl to the Aztecs, Helios to the Greeks.
The Egyptians personified the sun as Aton Ra and a moving Hymn to Ra has travelled down through the ages to us.
It takes one year for the Sun to complete the cycle of the 12 signs of the chart; approximately one degree each day, 30 degrees or one full sign) per month.
| The Sun Rules : |
Leo (by day and night)
Fire triplicity by day |
| Angel : |
Michael |
| Exalted Degree : |
19 Aries |
| Detriment : |
Aquarius |
| Fall : |
Libra |
| House ruled : |
5th house |
| Day Ruled : |
Sunday and the first and eighth hour of that day |
| Persons Represented : |
father, authority figures of any type, a famous person, a superior person.
Colors, Stones : Ruby, gold, chrysolite, adamant, carbuncle, the etites stone found in eagle’s nests. |
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The symbol is a circle with a central point, and many religions regard it as a god or goddess whose divine life and light radiates in all directions. |
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| Classical Astrology Data at bottom |
IN THE CHART
The Sun also symbolizes what is central for us – our identity, the Will, Individuality. Psychologically it represents our experience of the father and his influence or lack of influence on the building of our character and ability to express ourselves as individuals. It also symbolizes our creative drive and need to be visible. We strive to realise the qualities the Sun represents in our horoscope through a process of individuation throughout our life. This self-realization process is our highest goal.
The Sign the Sun is in shows the direction in which we strive to realise ourselves. The Sun changes sign every month. The qualities of this sign are like adjectives which colour our self-expression. We have to develop and perfect these qualities to truly find ourselves. The House the Sun is in indicates the specific area in the material world in which we manifest our identity. We will identify very strongly with the practical issues that this House represents. Self-realization comes through the matters connected with the House. The Aspects to our Sun show psychological influences on our identity which have to be integrated in some way. Aspects indicate specific effects that modify the expression of our identity and make us unique individuals. Aspects can also show quite precisely how we experienced the influence of the father, and how that modifies our attempts to become individuals.
The Sun sign tells us who we are, while the Rising Sign shows us who we feel we have to be to fit in to our environment. Since the Rising Sign represents the moment of birth (you can’t calculate your Rising Sign without your time of birth), the first place we have to fit into is our family. From there most of us have to learn to fit in to various situations – school, life in general, relationships, etc.
Where the Sun is a conscious, masculine and an outgoing energy that is easy to spot, the Moon is an unconscious, internal, feminine and an illogical energy. I look at the Sun as being what we want, while the Moon symbolism is what we need.
The Sun is what we aspire to, what we wish to believe of ourselves, how we express ourselves, our essential value, the "essence" of who we are. It represents vitality, leadership, creativity and the nobility of mankind. It often denotes those of high or noble birth and is important in relationships with superiors. Its action is to illuminate (obviously), stabilise, integrate, elevate and improve.
How the Sun will manifest its energy, it’s life-generating creative potential, depends on the horoscope as a whole. The Sign (and its Element), the House in which it falls, and the Aspects to the other planets, will all have a bearing on any interpretation.
The sign the Sun is in shows the direction in which we strive to realise ourselves. The Sun changes sign every month, defining your birth sign. The qualities of this sign are like adjectives, which colour our self-expression. We have to develop and perfect these qualities to truly find ourselves.
The House the Sun is in indicates the specific area in the material world in which we manifest our identity. We will identify very strongly with the practical issues that this House represents. Self-realisation comes through the matters connected with the House.
The Aspects to our Sun show psychological influences on our identity which have to be integrated in some way. Aspects indicate specific effects that modify the expression of our identity and make us unique individuals.
Aspects can also show quite precisely how we experience the influence of the father, and how that modifies our attempts to become individuals.
Transits and progressions to or from this luminary indicate events in the journey of life and a reassessment of personal identity. The person may experience this as life-threatening, or life-supporting. Either way, it is like turning the page in the story of life and getting on to the next “adventure”.
MEDICAL SUN
The Sun is the source of your vital power, principally ruling the brain and heart in man and woman. Its sign location (zodiac Sun sign), aspects to other planets, and house position indicate the vitality of the body, especially in males. The Sun is thus the indicator of health in males, while the Moon governs health matters in females. However, the Sun and Moon are important in health matters in both sexes. The Sun signs and Moon signs at birth, along with their aspects and positions, are regarded as the "fountains of life on Earth". The Sun is one of the vital centers in a star map, along with the Moon, Ascendant (rising sign), and Midheaven (tenth house).
The power of the Sun and how it radiates within you can be thought of as light rays emanating from a light bulb, powering into your body. The Sun signs are divided into the Four Elements: FIRE (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius); AIR (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius); WATER (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces); and EARTH (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn). All males born with the Sun in fire signs have the best prospects for good vitality, as light radiates most freely in a body composed of the fire element. Light also radiates freely in air, and these natives are the next strongest, but air sign people become weakened by worry and nervousness. They need rest to recuperate. The earth element for sunlight is linked with the densest matter, gives tenacity, wear and tear, rather than vitality. Theses individuals tend to recovery slowly from their illnesses. The water element for transmission of sunlight gives the weakest constitution, being a more difficult medium to manifest light (except Scorpio).
The Sun is the giver of life, but is quite impersonal in its influence that the average man or woman rarely contacts its higher qualities in a conscious or positive sense. Planetary aspects, even if hard (square or opposite), are better than no aspects at all, as in the latter, the native is hardly touched at all by its influence. This fact is the reason "Sun sign" prophecies found in the tabloids and daily paper make no sense to some individuals. When well placed, however, it signifies will power, authority, and self-reliance. If afflicted by the Moon or Ascendant, it will make the health feeble and the vitality low.
The Sun rules the metabolic fires of your body’s cells. Its placement represents how that energy is needed and distributed. Your body requires copious quantities of light from many sources to maintain your health, vitality, and beauty. Each Sun sign has recommended foods that tend to foster vitality, as well as dietary pointers, and warnings about certain foods that will disturb your body’s distribution of the Sun’s vital rays, indicative by your Sun’s zodiac placement (the season of the year in which you were born).
In terms of the Zodiac, the twelve signs represent the Grand Man, and rule the different parts of the body, from head as in Aries, to toe as in Pisces. Thus, there is a zodiacal rulership over the body and its organs. In terms of Sun signs and rising signs, it represents where disease potential exists. The locations and transits represent how an organ or bowel will be afflicted since these are rotating, dynamic entities. The houses at birth, signify why disorders will manifest.
Inharmonious aspects to the Sun are angles and locations of the other planets in their orbits in relationship to the Sun. They are called afflictions. For example, if the Sun is afflicted by a hard angle to the Moon, the health will be weak, and the rays of the Sun will be on the cold side, the eyesight will suffer.
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY: Vitality, the absorption of prana through the spleen, the immune system, heart function, spine and back, eyesight, individual cellular metabolism, the blood and oxygenation, consciousness.
The Sun rules the heart, spleen, upper back, lower spine, right eye for males, left eye for females, cerebral haemorrhage, skin cancer, hormones, glands.
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATIONS
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Anciently called Sol, Titan, Ilios, Phoebus, Apollo, Pean, Osyris, Diespiter.
Physical descriptions:
Usually the Sun represents a man of a good, large and strong corporature; a yellow, saffron complexion, a round, large forehead: goggle-eyes or large, sharp and piercing; a body strong and well composed, not so beautiful as lovely; full of heat, their hair yellowish, and therefore quickly bald, much hair on their beard, and usually a high ruddy complexion, and their bodies fleshy; in conditions they are very bountiful, honest, sincere, well-minded, of great and large heart, high-minded, of healthful constitution, very humane; yet sufficiently spirited, not loquacious.
For the Sun, we can only say he is oriental in the figure, or in the oriental quarter of the figure, or occidental, etc., all other planets are either oriental when they rise or appear before him in the morning. Occidental, when they are seen above the earth after he is set.
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Associated Terms :
| Aries |
degrees 15 – 21 |
| Taurus |
degrees 9 – 15 |
| Gemini |
degrees 1 – 7 |
| Cancer |
degrees 14 – 20 |
| Leo |
degrees 7 – 13 |
| Virgo |
degrees 1 – 7 |
| Libra |
degrees 20 – 24 |
| Scorpio |
degrees 22 – 27 |
| Sagittarius |
degrees 15 – 20 |
| Capricorn |
degrees 7 – 12 |
| Aquarius |
degrees 7 – 12 |
| Pisces |
degrees 11 – 20 |
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Rulership by face (or decanate) :
| Aries |
degrees 11 – 20 |
| Gemini |
degrees 21 – 30 |
| Virgo |
degrees 1 – 10 |
| Scorpio |
degrees 11 – 20 |
| Capricorn |
degrees 21 – 30 |
Nature:
Masculine, diurnal, hot and dry, choleric; a fortune if well dignified.
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Colors and odors:
Yellow, the colour of gold, scarlet or clear red, some say purple. In savours, he likes well a mixture of sour and sweet together, or the aromatical flavour, being a little bitter and stiptical, but withal confortative and a little sharp. |
Minerals & Stones:
Amongst the elements the Sun has domination over fire and clear shining flames; over metals, he rules gold. Stones include the hyacinth, chrysolite, adamant, carbuncle, the etites stone found in eagle’s nests, the pantaure, if such a stone be the ruby.
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| People Signified:
Kings, princes, emperors, dukes, marquesses, earls, barons, lieutenants, deputy-lieutenants of counties, magistrates, gentlemen in general, courtiers, desirers of honour and preferment, justices of peace, majors, high-sheriffs, high-constables, great huntsmen, stewards of noblemen’s houses, the principal magistrate of any city, town, castle or country village – yea, though a petty constable, where no better or greater officer is. Goldsmiths, braziers, pewterers, coppersmiths, minters of money.
Places Signified:
Houses, courts of princes, palaces, theatres, all magnificent structures being clear and decent, halls, dining rooms. |
Anatomy and Illnesses:
Pimples in the face, palpitations or trembling, or any diseases of the brain or heart, timpanies, infirmities of the eyes, cramps, sudden swoonings, diseases of the mouth and stinking breaths, catarrhs, rotten fevers; principally in man he governs the heart, the brain and right eye, and vital spirit, in women the left eye. |
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Herbs, Plants and Trees:
The plants subject to the Sun smell pleasantly, are of good flavour, their flowers are yellow or reddish, are in growth of majestical form, they love open and sunny places, their principal virtue is to strengthen the heart and comfort the vitals, to clear the eyesight, resist poison, or to dissolve any witchery, or malignant planetary influences; and they are: saffron, the laurel, the pomecitron, the vine, enula campana, Saint John’s wort, amber, musk, ginger, herbgrace, balm, marigold, rosemary, rosa solis, cinnamon, celandine, eyebright, peony, barley, cinquefoil, spikenard, lignum aloes, arsenic.
Trees include the Ash, palm, laurel tree, the myrrh tree, frankincense, the cane tree or plant, the cedar, heletrepion, the orange and lemon tree.
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Manners when well dignified:
When well dignified very faithful, keeping their promises with all punctuality, a kind of itching desire to rule and sway where he comes: prudent, and of incomparable judgement; of great majesty and stateliness, industrious to acquire honour and a large patrimony, yet as willingly departing therewith again; the solar man usually speaks with gravity, but not many words, and those with great confidence and command of his own affection; full of thought, secret, trusty, speaks deliberately, and notwithstanding his great heart, yet is he affable, tractable and very humane to all people, one loving sumptuousness and magnificence, and whatever is honourable; no sordid thoughts can enter his heart.
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Manners when badly placed:
Then the solar man is arrogant and proud, disdaining all men, cracking of his pedigree, he is purblind in sight and judgement, restless, troublesome, domineering; a mere vapour, expensive, foolish, endued with no gravity in words, or soberness in actions, a spendthrift, wasting his patrimony, and hanging on other men’s charity, yet thinks all men are bound to him, because a gentleman born.
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32
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34
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11
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27
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30
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23
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18
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31
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SUN = 111/ 666
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“It is affirmed by Magicians, that there are certain tables of numbers distributed to the seven planets, which they call the sacred tables of the planets, …
The fourth table is of the Sun, and is made of a square of six, and contains thirty six numbers, whereof six in every side, and Diameter, produce 111, and the sum of all is 666. There are over it divine names… [as before]. This being engraven on a Golden plate with the Sun being fortunate, renders him that wears it to be renowned, amiable, acceptable, potent in all his works, and equals a man to Kings, and Princes, elevating him to high fortunes, inabling to do whatsoever he pleaseth: but with an unfortunate Sun, it makes a tyrant, and a man to be proud, ambitious, unsatisfiable, and to have an ill ending.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Of Occult Philosophy, Book II (circa 1510)
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Leo: Divinatory Meaning
