Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Sun
You come into focus through other people. With the Sun opposite your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world., falling on the The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship., 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 in — Bring a whole, centered self into your partnerships.
Watch for — Outsource your identity to whoever you happen to be with.
- sun
- ascendant
- opposition
- relationship
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.