☌ Conjunction
Sun conjunction Jupiter
Confidence as a character trait rather than an achievement. The classical reading is generosity, optimism and good fortune; the classical warning is that nothing teaches restraint, so the scale of everything tends to run ahead of the substance.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☉ ♃
What these two are about together
Identity and expansion. How much room you believe you are entitled to take up, and what happens when that belief meets the world.
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
Confidence as a character trait rather than an achievement. The classical reading is generosity, optimism and good fortune; the classical warning is that nothing teaches restraint, so the scale of everything tends to run ahead of the substance.
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
Jupiter: Meaning, growth and the risk of too much
Sun and Jupiter at other angles
- Sun semi-sextile JupiterThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square JupiterForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile JupiterSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile JupiterSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square JupiterNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine JupiterA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate JupiterA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx JupiterA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition JupiterDirectly 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 Jupiter actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.