SUN

As center of the Solar System, the Sun also symbolizes what is central for us - our identity. 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 realize the qualities the Sun represents in our horoscope through a process of individuation throughout our life. This self-realization process is our highest goal.

Sun-Aries

In relation to others you expect to be respected and hate to be told what to do. You function best when your leadership is undisputed. You prefer excitement in a relationship, and thrive in a partnership which gives you freedom and independence. At the same time you can be rather naive and romantic. You enjoy competition in relationships, and hate being fawned upon. Perhaps you like to see yourself as a knight in shining armor, or a pioneer on some way. You have a direct nature and youthful charm, though you may be somewhat self-absorbed. Harmony usually depends on your learning to see things from the point of view of other people. Women with this influence may project it and thus be attracted to men with the qualities described. Men will tend to stand on their masculine dignity in a rather adolescent way. The greatest transformations in your life come when you learn to assert your individual nature.

1ST HOUSE INFLUENCE You tend to see life as a drama where the spotlight is on you. Some people may feel that you are self-centered in this respect, but it is part of your mission in life to realize yourself and your creative abilities. Everything you do in life is done with a powerful self-awareness, and this can be both a blessing and a curse. Aware of the impact you have on your surroundings, you feel that you are on stage all the time, and that much is demanded of you. You may wish to tone down the intensity of your presence, as you do have a tendency to steal the limelight....but you can be fun to be with. You can sparkle and energize other people. And you have genuine good intentions and a natural generosity, which, though sometimes rather overwhelming, can be of benefit to others.

Sun-Taurus

Basically you seek stability and security. However some of the greatest testing times of your life come when your values change and periods of instability arise. These periods will often be accompanied by the need to lose or give up something to which you are extremely attached. Your fate is to understand the very nature of attachment and yet develop greater flexibility in the face of gain or loss. Partnerships can be affected by your inertia as regards the need for renewal and change. When your self-worth is reflected by inner values which can never be lost, you become a tower of strength for yourself and others. Other things being equal you can build a wall of security around your loved ones. However you may have rather fixed ideas and principles, and you rarely allow yourself to be influenced. When those around you desire change, this can create a good deal of frustration.

2ND HOUSE INFLUENCE Material values and status are seen by you as a testimonial to your self-worth. Therefore you build up strong attachments to things and have a keen sense of values. Some people may see you as materialistic, but for you material acquisitions can be a strong foundation for continued growth, and success in this area means you are often in a position to be quite generous. You need to feel that you are respected in all areas of your life; therefore you embrace conventional values and stick to them. It takes a lot to get you to shift your view or perspective. However periods which bring economic changes can lead to a profound revaluation of your values.

Sun-Gemini

The greatest challenges come for you when communication problems arise. Often an important break with a brother, sister or close friend can inaugurate a complete mental revaluation. In your essential search for meaning you can feel a bond to two very different schools of thought, or you can have two mentors with quite different ideas. Variety and polarity is the stuff of life for you, and you feel distinctly uncomfortable if you are asked to identify yourself with one single direction or opinion. Tension can arise in partnership matters because of your changeability and seeming inconstancy. Often it is enough for you to entertain fleeting ideas as a kind of mental gymnastics. Thus frustration arises in others because you don't always act on your ideas. Nevertheless you are fun to be with; you rarely take yourself too seriously, and are always willing to adapt to change.

3RD HOUSE INFLUENCE Your father, or maybe a brother who you had respect for, will have had a powerful effect on your mental identity, perhaps as a mentor. Their travels and interests will expand your horizons. In life you invest considerable energy into expressing your ideas - and you identify very strongly with them, seeing intelligence as a yardstick for self-esteem. As such, some of the most far-reaching personal changes come, when you have to change the way you think. Changes in sibling relationships can also leave their mark.

Sun-Cancer

The bond to your mother will have been particularly formative. You are sensitive and easily hurt - though this may not be immediately apparent on the outside. Likewise, you are loyal and passionate in your defense of those you love - injury done to them is also done to you. You have a strong and instinctive protective nature. The greatest dilemma in your life comes when the bonds of attachment are broken - for example in connection with changes in the family structure. At these times it is important to recognize the dangers of sentimental attachment to the past. Your reluctance to let things go can stand in the way of your personal development. You have a great talent for building up a nurturing environment for those who are close to you, yet it can also help to be more open to those who are not necessarily so close. You are easily upset by changes in your daily rhythm, and can be rather grumpy when called upon to change habitual behaviors. Your home is your castle.

4TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Your upbringing has had an especially profound effect on your identity, and your father's influence will have been particularly strong in this respect. You have had a compelling need to look up to him and use him as a role model - for good or ill. Later in life you will draw great strength from the family you build up yourself, and your children will probably take a central role in your life. Your home and family will be the most important motivating influence for you, and you will be aggressively protective of them. You identify strongly with your home and may also take a special interest in your family history. You will not mind spending a lot of your time at home - this where you can really be yourself.

Sun-Leo

Your relationship to your father has direct relation to your degree of self-confidence. Although you can be warm, gallant and charming, you have a strong need to dominate in partnerships and have a tendency to be attention-grabbing precisely because of insecurity in this area. You are romantic, and not averse to the occasional affair to give your ego the shine it needs. Great challenges in your life occur in connection with your sense of identity. In these periods of crisis you will tend to radically change your image. Your exaggerated sensitivity to the kind of impression you make on your loved one makes way, as you mature, for a stronger sense of self-security based on inner convictions. It is at these times that false pride and elitism bite the dust, and your natural nobility emerges.

5TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Childhood had a powerful effect on your ability to enjoy life and express yourself. Generally speaking you have a surplus of energy and a bubbling character. You easily fall in love with love, and your natural radiance can be a powerful factor in attracting partners. You are disposed to love affairs, and there may be a rather narcissistic element here because you are seeking confirmation of the attractiveness of your own identity from partners. You contribute a sense of fun in relationships, and this makes you a hit with children. You can attain self-realization through developing your creative interests.

Sun-Virgo

The main challenges to your identity come when changes arise in your environment - whether it is personal health, in the home or in your working life. It is at these times that you learn to use your discriminative judgment to refine and clear out impurities in one form or another. You have a particularly well-developed critical sense and strong powers of analysis, and these can be your tool for personal development. This means overcoming a tendency to be self-critical, and giving yourself the credit you deserve for being of assistance to others. To attain harmony in partnership matters you must also avoid being critical of the partner. You can be too busy and too involved in the everyday running of things, and this can evoke a passive state in the partner. Being a perfectionist, you tend to end up doing all the work in the home yourself. If you do not set limits for help, you will be taken advantage of.

6TH HOUSE INFLUENCE In your search for self-expression you will find great meaning in the concept of service. As such you are a very unselfish person, and your greatest satisfaction comes from helping others or being useful. You can find meaning in daily rituals and small acts of devotion. By watching and improving the way things function you find a place for your identity in the larger scheme of things. Your partner will appreciate your helpful nature, but you have to know when to draw the line - otherwise you may end up with all the work. You have a talent for matters concerning health and diet, and you can gain insight into your identity through developing your consciousness of the interdependence of mind, emotions and body.

Sun-Libra

The major formative experiences in your life are connected with relationships. In these key periods changes connected with your intimate bonds to another will lead to a revaluation of who you are and what your role is in life. You learn at these times that being true to yourself means not always compromising your needs for the sake of a relationship. Indeed this kind of compromise often involves an element of manipulation - if only through your natural charm. Nevertheless, you feel a sense of self most strongly when in a harmonious relationship and it is here that your talents lie. Your appreciation of beauty and your good taste brings an atmosphere of peace. You show a natural concern for others, but you demand that this concern goes both ways - you cannot accept a relationship, if the romance has gone out of it, and you are skilled at recreating conditions for love.

7TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Partnerships are important for you, and you can find your true identity when you tune in to the needs of another. You choose a partner you can look up to and respect - someone whose charisma can reflect on you. Women with this position may choose a father-figure type who is prominent in society - perhaps a member of the social elite, or successful in some other way. Men with this position tend to assume a father role. The tendency to identify too strongly with the partner can mean that you have no clear idea who you are as a person. An identity crisis at some point of your life will redress this imbalance, but if your partner is immature, there will be disappointment when you no longer put him or her on a pedestal. However, by defining your own goals and identity you can take the pressure off your partner to fulfill unrealistic expectations .

Sun-Scorpio

Being able to trust someone, and being sure that nothing is hidden from your considerable perceptive talents are essential ingredients for a good relationship. And intense emotional relationships are very important to you - you do not like superficiality at all. Turning points in your life come in the form of psychological breakthroughs which shake your emotional foundations. Often this will be connected with the transformation of a deep emotional bond, which wakens your latent anxiety connected with emotional security. By giving up the illusion of being able to control others emotionally, you are confronted with your own vulnerability. Your facade of inscrutability is transformed and a softer and more understanding side of your character is evoked. Your greatest talent is your ability to strengthen others by your emotional and mental support.

8TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You spend a great deal of your life trying to define who you are. Early anxieties connected with the father - who was in some way rather unapproachable, and who may have struggled with existential issues himself - have given rise to a compulsive need to manifest yourself. Your drive to feel secure in the inner reaches of your soul, and your frustration when the image you build up of yourself periodically falls into ruins, leads you on an inner journey in which you achieve self-definition through deep psychological insight. There are many deaths and rebirths in this process, and other people will see your struggle as intense and rather exhausting, especially as it is in intimate relationships that you test yourself. Remember that relationships do not have to be a life or death experience. Sexuality, possessiveness and jealousy, or mutual psychotherapy for good or ill, are all important factors in relationships.

Sun-Sagittarius

You are considerably inspired by nobility of the mind, and intellectual achievement. Your personal visions about the future can be very significant for the people you come into contact with. Some of the great turning points in your life come when you discover new mental frontiers which force you to discard old beliefs which you identified strongly with. You do have a tendency to pontificate about what you believe to be true. Experience shows, however, that you rarely stay in the same place as regards beliefs, and that truth is relative to your discoveries at any one time. Relationships would therefore benefit, if you were less forceful and argumentative and more open to the point of view of your partner. You may feel it is your duty to inform people of what you regard to be the truth, but experience will teach you that people listen best when you wait to be asked for your views.

9TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You have a powerful drive to realize yourself through intellectual, philosophical or spiritual interests. This probably arises from a father who had similar interests. You are fascinated by what makes the world go round, and what your place is in the scheme of things. When you find deeper significance in the events that go on around you, you formulate strong opinions which form the basis of your identity. Indeed people may find you opinionated and rather intellectually dominating. As a seeker of truth you can give others deep inspiration, though it is better to let others come to you, than for you to foist your convictions on them. During the course of your life you are disposed towards strong religious experiences, and you might benefit from - though you will never allow yourself to be subservient to - the guidance of a wise man.

Sun-Capricorn

You have rather conventional tastes and quite a strong sense of morality, and you will be looking for qualities you can respect in a partner. You tend to judge weaknesses rather severely and expect a high standard in your relationships. As you are strongly motivated by your ambitions you may have a tendency to neglect your emotional life in favor of your professional interests. It is essential to find a balance between your professional and personal life. Public commitments can often take priority over private, though you will always be conscientious in your duty to the family. Partners can find you rather stiff and unspontaneous, and although this may be the case, you are normally loyal and responsible as regards family life. You are generally a person who can be trusted. When your outer facade melts you can be quite soft and sensual, and very devoted.

10TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You are extremely involved in issues of self-esteem and feel that your own self-worth must be measured by your achievements in society. This attitude stems from the influence of a parent - probably your father - who imbued in you ideas of respect and duty to society. Attaining goals, then, is the strongest motivational factor in your life. The problems is that you tend to move the goalposts in a constant spiral of striving. Perhaps it would be wise to relax more and enjoy the fruits of your labors? Because you identify so strongly with your professional position - you are what you do - you may have difficulty being spontaneous and natural on an intimate or emotional level. You also have a deep need to be respected and appreciated by your partner. Being known or respected makes you take yourself too seriously.

Sun-Aquarius

The great turning points in your life happen in connection with upheavals in social relationships. As your opinions and beliefs change you will find yourself redefining who you want to be together with. The loss of good friends for one reason or another can thus lead to a strong sense of isolation whilst you re-evaluate your visions. Your greatest talent is the unconscious ability to create an almost magic atmosphere when you are together with people. Although you are warm and friendly, in intimate relationships you can be rather uncomfortable about showing your emotions. When under emotional pressure, you tend to freeze up and establish a distance, and this can be rather disturbing for your partner. A wise partner will never stand in the way of you and your friends.

11TH HOUSE INFLUENCE Some of the most important personal developments for you come through your experiences in groups and with friends. Your social life is central. You set great store on being accepted and respected in the social scene, and you are in general a loyal and warm-hearted friend. Your social connections have such a high priority that they may affect the harmony of intimate relationships. Your partner may feel that you are avoiding emotional intimacy, but it would be wise to encourage you in your social interests, because you become a more whole person through contact with others. You have a fascination and talent for working in consciousness-raising groups, and benefit greatly from contact with untraditional people from international backgrounds.

Sun-Pisces

Many of the turning points in your life are of a spiritual nature in that you learn to discern a meaning behind events which makes sense of the seemingly meaningless nature of things. These experiences constantly enhance your sensitivity and personal insight. In this process of personal development it is essential for you to resolutely avoid any feeling of martyrdom, even though you more than most are aware of, and witness to, the tragedies of human existence. Partnerships function best when you avoid the two extremes of having unrealistic expectations of the partner, and going around feeling the odds are stacked against you. By avoiding negative states of mind as far as possible, you can attract good fortune to yourself, and give spiritual sustenance to others.

12TH HOUSE INFLUENCE You have the capacity to take on many roles in your life, assuming the professional guise which is expected of you under any given situation. The greater part of your life is spent in a search to find or define your identity. As a child you probably felt a sense of isolation, and in relation to your father you may have felt that he was remote, a dreamy figure who was difficult to get into contact with. Later in life you also personally feel a sense of remoteness and often find that the goals you pursue lead to disappointment or a sense of meaningless. This inner dissatisfaction motivates you to go on an inner journey to understand the nature of yourself. You can find meaning when you withdraw from the world for a period of time - too much contact with others for too long can be confusing for you. You would benefit greatly from meditation, because a spiritual practice or creative work enables you to reach the core of your being. When you are there you discover your place in the cosmos, and the cosmos's place in you. For you to truly find yourself, you must lose yourself. You can discover the interdependency of humanity and the universe.

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