☌ Conjunction
Sun conjunction Chiron
Identity built around the sore place. Associated with somebody whose sense of self is inseparable from what hurt, and with unusual skill at the thing that caused it. Read as vocation rather than damage.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚷
What these two are about together
The self and the injury that did not close. The tradition reads this as the place where a person is least able to take their own competence at face value, and where their actual usefulness to others tends to come from.
What a conjunction does
A conjunction is the tightest relationship in a chart: two planets sitting at effectively the same point in the zodiac, rising, setting and moving together. The tradition does not read it as good or bad on its own. It reads it as fusion. Whatever the two planets each govern stops being two separate concerns and starts being one, and it is often the placement a person is least able to see in themselves, because there is no distance from which to look at it.
How it reads
Identity built around the sore place. Associated with somebody whose sense of self is inseparable from what hurt, and with unusual skill at the thing that caused it. Read as vocation rather than damage.
In practice
Strongest of the five, and the most dependent on which two bodies are involved. A conjunction of two comfortable planets is usually experienced as a natural talent; a conjunction of two difficult ones is usually experienced as a single unavoidable subject that keeps coming round.
What to watch for
The absence of separation. Whatever these two do, they do at once, which makes it hard to tell which of the two is driving.
The two planets
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Sun and Chiron at other angles
- Sun semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx ChironA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition ChironDirectly across the chart: two ends of one axis
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Sun and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.