AstrologyReading1c-Sun aspect Asc & MC

Sun square Ascendant

Strength = 99/100, orb = 1.67°/8.0°

This is a very significant aspect, as the way your express yourself is rough and even explosive at times, running at cross-purposes to your will, goals, and life purpose. You have trouble getting your ideas and thoughts across, and may have decided that your appearance doesn't matter, or even dress in a self-defeating manner. In any event the way you present yourself conflicts with who you really are, making it difficult for others to know or to respect (from re-, back + specere, to look at, see; thus: to look back on) you, or even repelling them. It is true that physical appearance is only a temporary covering for the soul. But we meet in a world of time and personalities, and few will take the time or choose to know you unless you present yourself in an interesting or enticing way. It would be wise to become more conscious as to why you make yourself unpresentable.

Your Sun sign energy, the flavor of your will and your drive for significance, is in conflict with your ascendant sign energy: your persona, public mask, how you express yourself. All planetary energies must express themselves through the ascendant if they are to be expressed at all, so this is a necessary and unavoidable self-integration on your part. For a Sagittarius with Virgo rising, your freedom-loving, larger than life, expansive, story-telling, philosophical Sagittarian energy is in conflict with the detail-oriented, critical, discriminating and purifying energy of Virgo. You must find a way to express your Sagittarian energy with a Virgo modality or you will remain unexpressed and defeated by life. One way is to see that in attending to the endless details of your grand schemes and in being truly discriminating and detail-oriented about your big story, you give them the honor they deserve and bring them forward with a perfection and maturity that will be valued, seen and received by others, and will therefore succeed. Your story is worth telling, Sagittarius; just give it the patience, love and attention it (and you) deserve).

Consider the quadruplicity this square is in (cardinal, fixed or mutable signs). Mutable squares (between Gemini or Sagittarius and Virgo or Pisces) need an adjustment in thinking or attitude and are telling you that you need to change your mind about something. Cardinal squares (between Aries or Libra and Cancer or Capricorn) can be handled by appropriate action, or by changing or ceasing the way you go after or start things. Fixed squares (between Taurus or Scorpio and Leo or Aquarius) are the hardest to deal with because they symbolize your will, which is far harder to surrender or to change than thought or action.

My first teacher Isabel Hickey thought that mutable afflictions (an “affliction” is a square, opposition, semi-square, quincunx or semisextile) are just beginning to manifest in this lifetime and are therefore the easiest to handle. Cardinal afflictions, on the other hand, are carried over from our last lifetime. If handled appropriately through constructive action they won't manifest in the next life in fixed signs. And fixed afflictions, Hickey said, symbolize “lessons we have failed to learn over many lifetimes, and are deeply ingrained patterns of behavior.” And because they have become habituated ways of being or responding (and represent our will), they need a great deal of attention and self-discipline to change.

Sun opposed Midheaven

Strength = 92/100, orb = 3.80°/12°

Depending on its exactness (see "strength" and "orb" just above), this could be the most significant aspect in your chart! You were born when the Sun was at the lowest point in the sky on the day of your birth. Being born near midnight in no way signifies lowliness of or base qualities in your character, but rather that you tend to be a homebody, and that, other things being equal—which they rarely are—your family interests outweigh your career concerns. Your emotions and your past play a very important part in your life, and may conflict with your career. If there are hard aspects to other fourth or twelfth house planets, some of these issues from your past probably need to be made more conscious in order for you to become a whole person. In this case some form of therapy would be helpful. Your subconscious and its origins - your past, your emotional roots, your family and childhood - will be the arena in your life where you most shine your light and express your will and sense of purpose. And you will do this in a manner described by your Sun's sign.

IF the Sun is in your third house AND also within 3°-4° of your fourth house cusp (check the orb in the header), THEN its expression through your fourth house is at least as strong as through your third; if its orb is less than 1.5°, it should be read as though it were in the fourth house and not in the third at all (see "dark side" in the Glossary for a deeper understanding of this principle).