Sun contacts
What the tradition holds about one person's Sun meeting a planet in someone else's chart. The older sources speak in families, a conjunction, a trine or sextile, a square or opposition, so each reading below covers its whole family.
4 readings curated here, each traced to a work and a page you can open for free. 4 longer pieces on single aspects go further into what the contact is like between two people.
Sun and Moon
- Conjunction
- Who one of you is and how the other feels line up exactly: the strongest kind of sympathy two people can share.
- Zadkiel (R. J. Morrison), The Hand-book of Astrology (London, 1861), s.v. "Sympathy", p. 109 read it
- Trine or sextile
- Your two natures sit in easy accord: a natural sympathy that friendship tends to follow.
- Sun Sextile Moon in SynastrySun Trine Moon in Synastry
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing), p. 221 read it"Raphael" (R. T. Cross), The Guide to Astrology (London: Foulsham, 1905), p. 96 read itPtolemy, Tetrabiblos, trans. J. M. Ashmand (London: Davis and Dickson, 1822), I.16, p. 38 read itPtolemy, Tetrabiblos, trans. J. M. Ashmand (London: Davis and Dickson, 1822), IV.7 "Friends and Enemies", pp. 192–193 read itVivian E. Robson, A Students' Text-Book of Astrology (London: Cecil Palmer, 1922), p. 140 read it
- Square or opposition
- Who you are and how you feel pull in different directions between you, so disagreements come easily.
- Sun Square Moon in SynastrySun Opposition Moon in Synastry
- "Raphael" (R. T. Cross), The Guide to Astrology (London: Foulsham, 1905), p. 96 read it
Sun and Venus
- Conjunction
- Who one of you is meets what the other enjoys: the makings of a happy, pleasurable friendship.
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing), p. 222 read it
Which of these you two have
The synastry page lists every contact between two charts from each person's date, time and place of birth. Nothing is transmitted; it is calculated on your own device.
For what the five angles are, see aspects; for the same pairings inside one chart, see natal aspects.