The sun is our closest star. It's rays and its energy gives life to all living things on our planet. Without the sun, life as we know it would cease to exist. 

Of course when anyone mentions astrology the first thing that is brought up in discussion is our sun sign. That is because the sun represents our vitality. It is our will to exist. The sun, in the body is represented by the heart. Just as the sun is the center of our solar system, our heart is central to all operations of our bodily functions.  And like the Sun, our heart is tied to our drive, courage, ambition, and zeal. 

In astrology, the sun becomes the starting point of what we tend to focus on in our natal charts. Our sun sign, just like every other sign in our chart, is determined by the time of our birth, particularly the day we were born. 

The zodiac chart is circle divided equally into 360 degrees. That is broken down even further by the 12 signs, 30 degrees contained within each sign.  Each degree representing a day it take the sun to advance through the signs. So for example, it takes approximately 30 days for the sun to move from the beginning of Leo, to the beginning of Virgo. 

The sun represents our character at it’s core, it is who you are when no one is looking. The symbol of the sun is a circle with a dot in the middle, indicative of awareness of self as the point of focus and the circumference representative of our surroundings. Look to the sun in one’s chart to identify purpose and where and how they will leave their impact in the world.