☌ Conjunction
Sun conjunction Pluto
The self is total. Read as enormous force of will, as a magnetic and slightly uncomfortable presence, and as somebody who does not do anything by halves.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☉ ♇
What these two are about together
Identity and power. The most intense pairing the Sun makes, and the one the tradition reads as being about control, survival and what a person will not let go of.
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
The self is total. Read as enormous force of will, as a magnetic and slightly uncomfortable presence, and as somebody who does not do anything by halves.
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
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Sun and Pluto at other angles
- Sun semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square PlutoNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx PlutoA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition PlutoDirectly 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 Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.