Understanding the Sun in astrology meaning and characteristics

Sun is the primary planet and represents the soul in astrology. He is the king of the planets. Moreover Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn, lose strength when they pass near the sun to certain degrees. It is combustion in astrology. Even, the moon also loses its glory when it meets the sun in the closest degree. Therefore, new moon or Amavasya occurs. So, it is the most powerful planet in all nine planets. Each planet has its specific characteristics, significations, and exhibits on the individual by its strength and placement in the birth chart. It is is a masculine planet and gives gentle malefic effects. 

Sun Characteristics – Sun Significance in Astrology

Sun represents ego, authority. It means how you appear to others, And how you perceive others both depend on the sun’s position. Thus, your behavior, decisions, capabilities, strength, motivation, and how you take things, selfishness, or selflessness, social status are determinate by the sun’s placement. Sun is all about self, core personality, individuality, confidence, and the driven force within you, in fact to say it is the identity of yourself. It is the energy forces you crave for self-expansion, leadership, and success. Sun signifies father, paternal relations, ancestors. The relationship between you and your father depends on the strength of the sun in astrology. Ancestral debts, which are pitra doshas notably, described in Vedic sun astrology, referring to sun position in horoscope.

Sun significance the king and power, royalty, higher stand which we can consider as the government in this century. So, things related to governance, dealings with authorities, recognition by rulers, administrating capabilities, leadership roles, government jobs, benefits from government representatives, and politics are sun significance in astrology. 

Sun is the soul. Your actual life’s purpose defines by the sun in astrology. The place, conjunction, lordship, and strength of the sun in your birth chart create the way to the soul’s purpose. Apart from these, the sun signifies enthusiasm, wickedness, fire, splendor, coral, eastern direction. further more, diseases related to eyes, stomach, head, heart, bile, brain, and bones are the effects of weak in sun in astrology. Obstacles from the government, quarrels, distressed harmony with your father, indecisiveness, insecurity in public, low confidence levels, lethargy, sluggish are also few symptoms of weak sun in horoscope.  In the same way, good health and well-being, social status, active, optimistic and individual, self-sufficient personality are significant results of strong sun in horoscope.

Sun Characteristics in Astrology

Sun is the ruler of the sign Leo. It exalts in Aries sign and debilitates in libra. The Leo is also the moolatrikona for the sun, and Scorpio is a friendly sign. Moon, Mars, Jupiter are friends, as Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu are enemies. In brief, Sun gives excellent results in 1, 5, 9, 10, and 11th positions from the ascendant. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 12th houses are not favorable for the sun.