Transit Lab: Sun Square Sun
I envision a day when I get back to writing posts about something other than my own transits, but for the time being it seems useful.
Today I had the transiting Sun in Leo/10th square my natal Sun in Scorpio/2nd. A few days ago I remembered this was coming up, but didn’t think much about it. Transits of the Sun are not super significant because they’re brief; they don’t have time to build into significance. I still watch them from time to time, however, as having a giant light shining for about three days now and then can show you something interesting about myself. In the course of the year, the Sun hits everything in your chart in every way. Again, it’s not the biggest show in town, but if you’re taking the day off from wrestling with an outer planet square or opposition, you might entertain yourself a bit with solar transits.
The square brings friction and requires something to change (to have resolution of the friction), and the transiting Sun shines light. We’re therefore looking at some thing I might see today about what my Sun needs to open up to in order to proceed. Very often a transiting planet squaring a natal planet is asking that natal planet to open to something new (or forgotten) about what the transiting planet is about.
I have some visions of my work and place in the world that have been coming together slowly. Yesterday, I ran across a passage in a book that gives words to my vision, and I was appropriately whelmed. The picture got a little clearer, some dots were connected, and suddenly here were words in front of me stating plainly things I’ve been unable to articulate but that have been shaping my work and heart stuff about that work for quite a while.
One of the expressions of 2nd house Sun people is a self-reliance. The 2nd is about values, skills, resources, self-esteem, and so the sanity of the person can seem to rest on how much he can do himself and not need to ask for help. I reached a moment today when that 2nd house Scorpio Sun got very clear that I need help, input and guidance to continue this transformation. I relaxed into the moment and asked to be shown what to do next. Asking for guidance is not foreign to me, but in that moment I opened up to be lead to do things I wouldn’t normally include in my 2nd house transformative tool belt. From Leo in the 10th house, the message is something like this: If you want to show yourself to the world (10th house), you have to open up to expression (Leo) that you wouldn’t normally dig (square). Your focus on deep transformation (Scorpio) of self (2nd house) needs to add some expressive stuff (Leo) to its repertory.
I can’t wait to see what’s coming. I’ve been reading a book about modern-day vision quests, and have found myself challenged by imagining participating in some of the practices. Today I said that if that’s the best thing for me to do, then I’m willing to do it. It’s not even the big stuff (fasting in the wilderness for 3 or 4 days, etc.), but some parts of the preparation for it that would cause me to look at my life and self in new ways.
A square to the Sun is in effect a challenge to who you think you are, how you organize your coherent sense of self. A square from the transiting Sun is just enough time to show you something interesting, but not enough time to dig deep and drag something out of you, as with squares from the outer planets.
Because the movement of the Sun is the basis of the Gregorian calendar, you can figure easily the dates when you have solar squares to your own natal Sun. Three months before and after your birthday is when this happens. Build it up like this: Wherever the transiting Sun is in your chart, ask yourself what the house and sign it’s transiting would have to say to your natal Sun in its house and sign. The example here is, what’s the challenge Leo in the 10th house offers to Scorpio in the 2nd house? The italics above are one kind of answer.
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August 8, 2007 By Tom Jacobs