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Aspects

Ascendant Opposition Sun

You come into focus through other people. With the Sun opposite your Ascendant, falling on the Descendant, your sense of self is drawn out in one-to-one relationship, and you often feel most yourself in the company of a significant other. You have a real gift for partnership and collaboration, an instinct for meeting people as equals and shining in the give and take. The shadow is dependence: you can outsource your identity to whoever you are with, losing your own center when you are alone or letting a dominant partner define you. The lifelong work is to carry a solid self into relationship, so that you relate from wholeness rather than to complete yourself.

Lean inBring a whole, centered self into your partnerships.

Watch forOutsource your identity to whoever you happen to be with.

Sources

  • Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Sun's opposition to the Ascendant as a defining statement about how identity meets the persona and the outer self.
  • Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of the Sun's opposition to the Ascendant as a core feature of the birth chart's self.
  • Carter, The Astrological Aspects (1930)Carter sets out the classic natal character of the Sun's opposition to the Ascendant in the native's nature.

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