☌ Conjunction
Sun conjunction North Node
The self and the direction coincide. Associated with a strong sense of purpose, and traditionally with a life that visibly points one way from early on.
- Angle
- 0°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Fusion
- Bodies
- ☉ ☊
What these two are about together
The self and the direction of development. The tradition reads the North Node as what a person is growing toward rather than what they are, so this pair is about identity being pulled somewhere it has not been.
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 and the direction coincide. Associated with a strong sense of purpose, and traditionally with a life that visibly points one way from early on.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Sun and North Node at other angles
- Sun semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx North NodeA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
- Sun opposition North NodeDirectly 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.