At some point in my love affair with astrology, I read that the degree of your natal sun usually corresponds to a pivotal event in your life that helped to shape who you are. Possibilities include: parental divorce, a significant move, the birth of a sibling, the death of a loved one. In other words, a significant, PIVOTAL event, something that influenced the course of your life.
When I first learned this, I tested it on the charts of people I knew well, starting with my own chart and that of my family. My Gemini sun is 16 degrees and 12 minutes. Five months after my 16th birthday, my parents left Venezuela, where I’d been born and raised, and moved to Florida. The significance of that move once prompted my dad to remark that since that move, I was reluctant to call any place home. And he was right.
Rob’s sun is 25 degrees and 27 minutes of Taurus. His corresponding age was around 25 – or 1973. He received a pardon from Gerald Ford for dodging the draft and refusing to go to Vietnam, for which he was convicted in 1972 and sentenced to alternative service.
Our daughter’s Virgo sun is 8 degrees and 32 minutes. Around that age – third grade – I had her I.Q. tested and she was admitted into a gifted program, which changed the course of her public school education.
My dad had a 26 degree 44 minutes Libra sun. He was around 27 when he met my mother on a blind date.
Recently, I did Bernie Beitman’s chart. He’s the psychiatrist who started the Coincidence Project, part of his serious study of synchronicity. His Pisces sun is at 8 degrees 30 minutes. So I asked him what pivotal event had occurred between the age of eight and a half and nine. Here’s his response:
That is when I lost my dog and I got lost and found him. That set the stage for my interest in human GPS, a subset of coincidences.
It’s easy to find out the degree of your natal sun. Cafe Astrology offers free astrology charts here.
Just enter your name, place and date of birth. If you don’t know the time, use noon. The sun travels a degree a day, so you’ll be able to see the degree but the minutes may not be correct. Take note of the sun’s degree, think of it as a year in your life. What pivotal event occurred for you that year? If you find something, please let me know.
