Planet
Sun
What the chart is for: the part of a life that is being spent on purpose.
- Speed
- about a month in each sign
- Retrograde
- never; it only ever moves forward
- Rules
- Leo
- Keywords
- identity · vitality · purpose
The Sun is the sign everyone knows, and the one most often mistaken for the whole chart. It marks where the year stood at your birth, and in a reading it stands for the deliberate self: what you are consciously trying to be, the direction effort goes when nobody is making you.
It never retrogrades and it moves at a steady degree a day, which is why sun-sign columns work at all and why they say so little. In a full chart, read the Sun for purpose and the Moon for need: a life that satisfies one and starves the other is the most common shape of quiet unhappiness.
Where to go next
Right now
Where Sun stands at this hour is on the sky today, with every other body beside it.
Always forward
Sun never retrogrades, so it has no stations to wait for. The ones that do are tracked separately.
In your chart
Where it stood the day you were born: cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.