The Astrological Heart: The Sun’s Power in Your Chart

ByDawn Bodrogi August 15, 2009 0 Comments

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We cannot look at the sun. No surprise, then, that many of us never get a handle on the Sun’s place in our lives. Unlike the Moon, the Ascendant, or the inner planets, we have a hard time pinpointing just how the Sun works. We live in the more familiar realm of the Moon — murky, but softer on the eye. Yet we forget that the Moon’s realm is ill-lit, and we can be blinded there, too.

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In an age of over-information, the struggle to distinguish the mind’s noise from the heart’s signal has intensified. The Sun in astrology acts as our primary filter for authenticity. While over-analyzing traps us in perceived limitations, the Sun provides the heat necessary to burn away those shadows. Following the heart isn’t about chasing a whim — it is about aligning with the steady, quiet pulse of your own solar reality.

Doing what is within the heart and doing what is required of us are one and the same. We tend to confuse following the heart with Venusian desires or Martian follow-through. But the heart is complete within itself — it needs nothing. It doesn’t necessarily make us happy in a fleeting sense — the path can burn — but it brings the strength of authenticity. You will be certain that you did what was right for you.

The human heart as a solar symbol — Dawn Bodrogi

In astrology, the Sun acts as the engine that moves us forward — the life pulse. In a chart, it is the all-pervasive consolidating energy behind every other aspect. Every experience has the Sun at its heart. We may react through the Moon, but the energy that created the experience emanates from the Sun. It is the creative power behind our lives.

The twelve signs signify the completion of a circle. We carry all of the sign archetypes within us, but the sign that holds our Sun has a special meaning. It is the link to our most basic creative power — the place where we reach beyond the limitations of everyday existence and link into our own heart energy.

“The sign of the Sun is the path by which our inner and outer worlds meet, allowing creative light to emanate into the inherent darkness of the lunar world.”

— Dawn Bodrogi

Solar astrology — Dawn Bodrogi
 

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The path can burn — but it brings the strength of authenticity.

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