“What’s your Sun sign?”. Everyone knows their Sun sign, even people who don’t ‘believe’ in astrology.
Your first experience of astrology was probably Sun-sign astrology, or the horoscope. With time, you learned Astrology is much more complex, and that the Sun is just a tiny part of the bigger picture of your chart.
But is the Sun really just one of the many elements of the natal chart? Is the Sun really just ‘another’ Mercury, Venus or Jupiter?
The Sun, especially – and ironically – for those of us who know a lot of astrology, is the big elephant in the room.
We get so distracted by planets, aspects, houses, asteroids, that we forget just how important the Sun is.
Of course, this is not an invitation to go back to horoscopes… not that there is no value in them. Sun-sign horoscopes are specific enough to be reasonably accurate.
This is an invitation to look at the Sun in a way you never looked before. This is an invitation to get to the bottom of what the Sun can offer us in terms of astrological information and guidance.
Why is the Sun so important?
It is BIG: The Sun is 99% of our solar system. 99% of the mass of the solar system is the Sun. The Moon, the Earth, even the giants Jupiter and Saturn and the other planetary bodies make just 1% of the mass of our solar system. Sometimes we forget just how big, how dominant the Sun is.
It gives LIGHT: The Sun gives light to all the other planets. The Moon, and all the planets are reflecting the Sun’s light. We know the Moon reflects the Sun’s light, but we forget that all the other planets do that as well. We couldn’t see Venus or Jupiter if we didn’t have the Sun. The Sun helps us see what is otherwise impossible to perceive.
It is the CENTER: All planets, and everything here on Earth, revolves around the Sun. The Sun is a central, overarching life-generating principle. The Sun is our framework, and gives us direction, meaning, and purpose. In astrology, planetary cycles are a reflection of how different planetary archetypes unfold in time and space.
Unfortunately, in modern astrology, these important concepts have been neglected or lost. It’s only recently that some modern astrologers have started to talk about day and night charts. It’s only recently that we have rediscovered the Sun-Venus cycle, with its Morning and Evening star phases.
Meet the “Sun expert”: Michael Ofek
Fortunately, this ancient knowledge is now coming back, thanks to the work of amazing astrologers like Michael Ofek.
Michael Ofek has spent years researching through ancient astrology text and has come with a revolutionary theory about the Sun and the concept of light in general.
Unhappy with the conflicting information we often find in modern astrology, Michael has reverse-engineered all the important pillars of astrology (signs, houses, cycles) in terms of the light-dark relationship.
According to his theory, everything goes back to the Sun.
The 12 Signs:
The 12 signs are the fundamental expression of the relationship between the Sun and the Earth. The Earth takes 365 days to go around the Sun. In a year we have 12 lunar cycles, so that’s how we got the 12 Solar archetypes, or the 12 signs of the zodiac.
The 12 Houses:
The ascendant – or the 1st house – is where the Sun rises. That’s why the 1st house is the house of Self – because this is where the Sun is birthed, this is where life becomes ‘visible’. The Descendant is where the Sun sets. The Midheaven is where the Sun is at the highest point in the sky, and the IC, the lowest point. From the 4 angles we get the 12 houses. If the signs are derived from the yearly solar cycle, the houses are derived from the daily solar cycle.
The Cycles:
We are all familiar with the Sun-Moon cycle, or the Lunar cycle. The Moon is new, then it begins to increase in size, then it’s full, then decreases in size, and then becomes new again. And the cycle repeats. Not only the Moon, but all the other planets have a similar relationship with the Sun.
Just like the New Moon is different from the Full Moon, we have archetypal variations of how every planet acts in a certain phase in relation to the Sun. Venus morning star is different from Venus evening star.
A Sun-Mars opposition (when Mars is at the highest possible distance from the Sun) is different from Sun conjunct Mars. The further away a planet is from the Sun, the more independent it becomes, because it moves further from the source.
The Sun is so big, so predictable, that we take it for granted. We are so used to its light and warmth, to its presence, that we forget just how important it is.
But everything we are, everything we have comes from the Sun. And this is something we need to remind ourselves.
The Sun and its light is the precondition of our ability to see and make sense of the world. If there is no light on an object, we can’t see it. And ‘seeing’ physically is analogical to seeing mentally, intellectually.
The Sun is at the heart of astrology. Essentially, astrology is the story of light.
The day when the light will disappear, all life on earth will disappear. The Sun is the socket by which we are connected to the electricity of life. And this is something we need to recognize, understand, and reconnect with again, because the Sun lives in all of us.
“The Role of the Sun” Webinar
Michael has recorded a talk for the Age Of Aquarius Community, called “The Role of the Sun“.
In the webinar, Michael talks about the crucial role the Sun plays in astrology, and shares an original theory about the Sun and its light that is like nothing you’ve heard before. If you’re a big-picture thinker, and like learning new theories, Michael’s insights will blow your mind!
Since this is such an important topic, we are happy to make accessible Michael’s incredible insights as a standalone webinar at a very accessible price.
The webinar is suited for intermediate or advanced astrology students.
You can learn more about the webinar here: