Sun

The Sun is the centre of the solar system and the centre of the birth chart. Astrology counts it among the planets for convenience, although it is a star, and calls it a luminary along with the Moon.

What it stands for

• identity
• vitality
• self-expression
• purpose

In the birth chart

Your Sun sign is the sign the Sun was in at your birth, and it is the sign most people mean when they say what sign they are. In the traditional reading it stands for core identity, ego, vitality and the sense of purpose.

The name and the myth

The Greeks pictured the Sun as the god Helios and later linked it to Apollo. The Romans called it Sol, and Sunday is the day named after it.

How astrology reads it

Astrology reads the Sun as the self at its most visible: what a person wants to express and be recognised for. Its sign shows the style of that expression and its house shows the area of life where it plays out. Leo is the sign it rules.

Signs: Leo.

In tarot

In the Golden Dawn scheme, Sun goes with The Sun, Three of Wands, Six of Cups, Ten of Swords, Four of Pentacles and Eight of Pentacles.

Tarot, astrology and numerology are traditions of symbolism. This page says what the tradition associates with its subject. It does not predict anything and it is not advice.