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The Sun conjunct the Moon

the Sun conjunct the Moon, within one nativity or between two charts in synastry

What the tradition reads

Within a single chart the Sun conjunct the Moon gives, in the tradition's own phrase, a double dose of the same sign, the will and the feelings speaking with one voice rather than in the usual dialogue between them. People with this placement are read as marked by focus and decisiveness, creatures of habit who stay unusually in touch with the present moment, intuitive enough to read other people readily and carrying a powerful drive to find a partner, though the same fusion can come across, from outside, as a kind of self-centeredness, since there is little internal distance left between what such a person wants and what they simply are. Between two charts, one person's Sun conjunct another's Moon is read as a strong, often immediate attraction in which the Moon person settles into a supportive, at times dependent or even submissive role toward the Sun person, relying on that person's wisdom and style, while the Sun person leans in turn on the Moon person's steady emotional support, each supplying what the other's own chart does not.

The story

A conjunction sets two bodies at, or close to, the same degree, with no real angular distance between them; Ptolemy's own chapter on the mutual configuration of the signs measures the opposition, trine, square and sextile by the number of degrees separating two positions, yet Wikipedia's summary counts the conjunction among the five traditional major aspects sometimes called Ptolemaic, and reports that conjunctions are said to be the most powerful aspects, because they mutually intensify the effects of the involved planets. Astronomically, a Sun and Moon standing together at the same degree is the new moon itself, the point in the month where the two lights cannot be told apart in the sky at all. Solar and lunar deities are named as close kin in mythology after mythology: siblings, in the Japanese telling of Amaterasu and her brother Tsukuyomi; in Mesopotamian myth the moon god Sin is even named the father of the sun god Shamash, one light springing directly from the other. A conjunction, fusing the two into a single point, reads as the oldest and closest version of that kinship, family drawn as tightly as the sky allows.

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Corpus key aspect:Sun:Moon:conjunction.