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crimsoncurrentIf we pay attention to the sect of the Sun and Moon, the Sun likes to be above the horizon, and the Moon likes to be below the horizon. The Sun likes to be above the horizon because it can be seen and command over the darkness, transforming it into light, while the Moon likes to be out in the night and appears when no one is looking. The Moon represents things that aren’t obvious but are still present, while the Sun is things that are super obvious but you don’t pay attention to it because it’s so obvious and you know it’s there; you don’t have to look up at the Sun to know it is daylight outside. Even if we look at the Hermetic Lots, specifically the lot of Fortune and the Lot of Spirit: they’re associated with the Moon and the Sun. The Lot of Fortune, in Zodiacal Releasing, is an extension of Lunar principals of the body and health, and with this in mind: the Moon would rule the body. Where as the Sun is associated with the Lot of Spirit, which is an extension of the Solar ideas of will, control, and direction. Additionally, the Sun and Moon rule different hemispheres of the chart, the topics in each hemisphere deal with Solar and Lunar topics. The upper half of the chart (Houses 7 through 12) deal with ideas of Spirit, for example, we see the 11th and 12th house coin the names: the place of “Good Spirit” and the place of “Bad Spirit”, whereas conversely, the 5th and 6th house, in the lower hemisphere of the chart (Houses 1 through 6) are labeled the house of “Good Fortune” and “Bad Fortune”, relating back to this idea with the hermetic lots of Fortune and Spirit.
Planetary Joys. In this diagram, following the concept of sect, we see all the diurnal planets are placed above the Horizon, whereas the nocturnal planets are all placed below the Horizon. The Sun is above the Horizon, leading the day sect, whereas …
Planetary Joys. In this diagram, following the concept of sect, we see all the diurnal planets are placed above the Horizon, whereas the nocturnal planets are all placed below the Horizon. The Sun is above the Horizon, leading the day sect, whereas the Moon is below the Horizon, leading the night sect.
The Sun in the Chart of the Native
With all of these significations in mind, I believe that the point of the Sun and what it represents can only be answered within context of the moon, its other half. It is taking both Body and Spirit and combining it together to get: Life. The Sun is the spirit, personality, and expression of spirit into the physical incarnation, the body, ruled by the Moon. Both of these things are necessary for something to come to life. The Sun and Moon together represent a materialization of the Spirit. When we look at the Sun in the chart of a native, we are essentially looking at the individuals Spirit and how it is expressed. It is the individuals will, their drive, and their energy. It is something so apparent but because it is so obvious, just like the Sun, we don’t often pay attention to it. Someone’s spirit is very hard to pinpoint and understand because the idea of Spirit is altered by the physical incarnation. Sometimes the Spirit might have a hard time expressing itself, if the Sun is aspected to Saturn, for example, or sometimes it might express itself without restraint, when aspected to Jupiter. While the Sun is the energy we give off, and we subject others to, the same way the Sun emits its light and energy onto all of Earth, and we are subjected to its radiance, warmth, and light. It is, in a sense, our aura. Additionally, the same way that the Sun emits light and allows us to actually see, since light is the only wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that the human eye can detect, the Sun is also the ability for us to perceive the world around us. Depending on what planets are aspected to the Sun, and the Sun’s condition, how we view our human experience will vary. The obvious signification for the Sun is our ability to be seen— how bright does our light shine, and is it bright enough for others to look? Leo Suns often have no trouble having their light shinning bright (not considering any other planetary conditions) because the Sun is in Domicile, and can fully do Solar things: shine. However, for someone who has the Sun in Aquarius, the Sun is in Detriment here because the Sun cannot shine as bright as it want’s too, and for as long as it want’s to, since the period from Libra to Pisces is where the days are shorter than the nights. The warmth of the Sun is not felt as much, and thus the Spirit cannot radiate as brightly as it wants to, from the limitations and walls that Saturn built.
It’s also important to take into consideration the idea of Mind, Body, Spirit. Monica P. Hall,conduitofhealing on Twitter, pointed out, in a discussion we were having, that the order needs to be flipped to Spirit, Mind, Body, because the Spirit always comes first, but then it is filtered through our physical incarnation as a medium for Spirit to move through, and through our conscious expression of it. The Sun is represented by the Spirit and the Moon is represented by the body, then what is the mind? Most people would say Mercury, however, I would argue it is the rising sign. The rising sign is our conscious manifestation of Spirit, and in a sense is personality. We are conscious of the Rising sign and the 1st house the most because it is the part of our chart that actually represents us as an individual, from our personality, to our behavior, to our physical makeup, etc. One interesting thing to point out is that Mercury, in the planetary joys scheme, rejoices in the 1st house, why is that? I assume part of the rational is, since the 1st house is the house most closely associated with the native, and Mercury represents our ability to express consciousness, in the form of language, Mercury rejoices in the 1st because it now has the ability to express it’s consciousness in an elevated form, through communication. Labeling the Rising Sign as the ‘mind’ in this idiom is not farfetched at all, and actually helps to provide context of what the Rising sign actually represents: our ability to express consciousness in a conscious, controlled, manner, which is the mind— and the definition for ‘mind’ is: “the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought”. The Spirit (Sun) is authentic, and then it is filtered through the mind (rising sign) and cognition of the world around them, as personality, and then is carried into motion through the body, a vessel in which the Spirit can move through. Some people may have a harder time being able to align their spirit, mind, and body, because the relationship between these 3 points in the chart may be in difficult aspects to each other, averted, or maltreated in some way.
rules, its house placements, etc. will all be deemed as ‘invisible’ or harder to notice, due to the Sun’s influence. This effect of the Sun’s ferocity overtaking another planet becomes more and more intense as planets move closer to the Sun, eventually moving towards Combustion, when a planet is within 8º of the Sun. Planets here become outshined, overpowered, and become submissive to the thing (in this case the Sun, but it would also be important to look at what the Sun rules in the chart) that is dominating it. However, when a planet is within 17’ of the Sun (17 arc minutes), it is considered to be Cazimi, in the Heart of the Sun, which was seen as something beneficial and strengthening for the planet in question. Planets that are Cazimi gain immense strength, and I consider it as the equivalent of being able to connect with God. God is often thought to be the light, source of higher power, all knowing wisdom, love, and it’s no coincidence that the name of the 9th house, the house in which the Sun rejoices in, is called the House of ‘God’. There is an enlightening experience that comes from a planet being Cazimi, and it is because of this enlightenment that the Cazimi-ed planet then becomes empowered and fortified to bring success to whatever it represents in the chart. There is some argument about what constitutes a planet being Cazimi, some authors use a really tight orb of 17’ and then others use a more generous orb of 1º.
The Sun is a very interesting planet in the chart, and I often feel it is overlooked, partially because Sun sign Astrology gives it a bad name, but it is also so obvious to everyone that we tend to overlook it because there is the presumption that there is more complexity in Astrology beyond the Sun. However, a core part of the chart is the Sun + Moon, and Rising, as they represent the strengths or challenges the spirit might have in expressing itself, and essentially what the Spirit is filtered through before it actually reaches other people, or the physical world. Without the Sun, we would be devoid of life, and just as the Sun is the big ball of fire in our Solar System, the Sun is our charts is that big ball of fire inside of us.
Planetary Joys. In this diagram, following the concept of sect, we see all the diurnal planets are placed above the Horizon, whereas the nocturnal planets are all placed below the Horizon. The Sun is above the Horizon, leading the day sect, whereas …
Planetary Joys. In this diagram, following the concept of sect, we see all the diurnal planets are placed above the Horizon, whereas the nocturnal planets are all placed below the Horizon. The Sun is above the Horizon, leading the day sect, whereas the Moon is below the Horizon, leading the night sect.
The Sun in the Chart of the Native
With all of these significations in mind, I believe that the point of the Sun and what it represents can only be answered within context of the moon, its other half. It is taking both Body and Spirit and combining it together to get: Life. The Sun is the spirit, personality, and expression of spirit into the physical incarnation, the body, ruled by the Moon. Both of these things are necessary for something to come to life. The Sun and Moon together represent a materialization of the Spirit. When we look at the Sun in the chart of a native, we are essentially looking at the individuals Spirit and how it is expressed. It is the individuals will, their drive, and their energy. It is something so apparent but because it is so obvious, just like the Sun, we don’t often pay attention to it. Someone’s spirit is very hard to pinpoint and understand because the idea of Spirit is altered by the physical incarnation. Sometimes the Spirit might have a hard time expressing itself, if the Sun is aspected to Saturn, for example, or sometimes it might express itself without restraint, when aspected to Jupiter. While the Sun is the energy we give off, and we subject others to, the same way the Sun emits its light and energy onto all of Earth, and we are subjected to its radiance, warmth, and light. It is, in a sense, our aura. Additionally, the same way that the Sun emits light and allows us to actually see, since light is the only wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that the human eye can detect, the Sun is also the ability for us to perceive the world around us. Depending on what planets are aspected to the Sun, and the Sun’s condition, how we view our human experience will vary. The obvious signification for the Sun is our ability to be seen— how bright does our light shine, and is it bright enough for others to look? Leo Suns often have no trouble having their light shinning bright (not considering any other planetary conditions) because the Sun is in Domicile, and can fully do Solar things: shine. However, for someone who has the Sun in Aquarius, the Sun is in Detriment here because the Sun cannot shine as bright as it want’s too, and for as long as it want’s to, since the period from Libra to Pisces is where the days are shorter than the nights. The warmth of the Sun is not felt as much, and thus the Spirit cannot radiate as brightly as it wants to, from the limitations and walls that Saturn built.
It’s also important to take into consideration the idea of Mind, Body, Spirit. Monica P. Hall,
conduitofhealing on Twitter, pointed out, in a discussion we were having, that the order needs to be flipped to Spirit, Mind, Body, because the Spirit always comes first, but then it is filtered through our physical incarnation as a medium for Spirit to move through, and through our conscious expression of it. The Sun is represented by the Spirit and the Moon is represented by the body, then what is the mind? Most people would say Mercury, however, I would argue it is the rising sign. The rising sign is our conscious manifestation of Spirit, and in a sense is personality. We are conscious of the Rising sign and the 1st house the most because it is the part of our chart that actually represents us as an individual, from our personality, to our behavior, to our physical makeup, etc. One interesting thing to point out is that Mercury, in the planetary joys scheme, rejoices in the 1st house, why is that? I assume part of the rational is, since the 1st house is the house most closely associated with the native, and Mercury represents our ability to express consciousness, in the form of language, Mercury rejoices in the 1st because it now has the ability to express it’s consciousness in an elevated form, through communication. Labeling the Rising Sign as the ‘mind’ in this idiom is not farfetched at all, and actually helps to provide context of what the Rising sign actually represents: our ability to express consciousness in a conscious, controlled, manner, which is the mind— and the definition for ‘mind’ is: “the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought”. The Spirit (Sun) is authentic, and then it is filtered through the mind (rising sign) and cognition of the world around them, as personality, and then is carried into motion through the body, a vessel in which the Spirit can move through. Some people may have a harder time being able to align their spirit, mind, and body, because the relationship between these 3 points in the chart may be in difficult aspects to each other, averted, or maltreated in some way. rules, its house placements, etc. will all be deemed as ‘invisible’ or harder to notice, due to the Sun’s influence. This effect of the Sun’s ferocity overtaking another planet becomes more and more intense as planets move closer to the Sun, eventually moving towards Combustion, when a planet is within 8º of the Sun. Planets here become outshined, overpowered, and become submissive to the thing (in this case the Sun, but it would also be important to look at what the Sun rules in the chart) that is dominating it. However, when a planet is within 17’ of the Sun (17 arc minutes), it is considered to be Cazimi, in the Heart of the Sun, which was seen as something beneficial and strengthening for the planet in question. Planets that are Cazimi gain immense strength, and I consider it as the equivalent of being able to connect with God. God is often thought to be the light, source of higher power, all knowing wisdom, love, and it’s no coincidence that the name of the 9th house, the house in which the Sun rejoices in, is called the House of ‘God’. There is an enlightening experience that comes from a planet being Cazimi, and it is because of this enlightenment that the Cazimi-ed planet then becomes empowered and fortified to bring success to whatever it represents in the chart. There is some argument about what constitutes a planet being Cazimi, some authors use a really tight orb of 17’ and then others use a more generous orb of 1º.
The Sun is a very interesting planet in the chart, and I often feel it is overlooked, partially because Sun sign Astrology gives it a bad name, but it is also so obvious to everyone that we tend to overlook it because there is the presumption that there is more complexity in Astrology beyond the Sun. However, a core part of the chart is the Sun + Moon, and Rising, as they represent the strengths or challenges the spirit might have in expressing itself, and essentially what the Spirit is filtered through before it actually reaches other people, or the physical world. Without the Sun, we would be devoid of life, and just as the Sun is the big ball of fire in our Solar System, the Sun is our charts is that big ball of fire inside of us.