Sun and Moon aspects
The Sun and Moon in aspect describe how what you want and what you need get along. Together, in step or at odds, the angle between them sets the tone of your inner life.
Some people decide what they want and feel fine about it. Others decide, and then lie awake while a quieter part of them disagrees.
The Sun is your will and the self you are growing into; the Moon is what you need to feel safe, the habits of your heart. The angle between them at your birth is the Moon’s phase that day, and it says how easily the two parts of you pull in the same direction.
Sun conjunct Moon
A conjunction means you were born near a new Moon, and you are of one piece. What you want and what you need are hard to tell apart, and you go after both with a single mind. People find you focused and self-contained. The cost is perspective: with no argument inside, it takes someone else to show you what you are missing.
Sun trine or sextile Moon
Your head and your heart mostly agree. You make decisions that suit your feelings, and your moods back up your plans. Home and the wider world sit comfortably side by side, which gives you an ease other people notice and envy. With a trine it comes almost too easily; the sextile asks you to reach for it.
Sun square or opposite Moon
What you want pulls one way and what you need pulls the other. Ambition argues with comfort, and the life you are building argues with the life that soothes you. The square is a friction that keeps you moving; the opposition, a birth near the full Moon, is a tug between two halves you learn to hold at once. It makes you restless and it makes you whole, because you know both sides of every choice from the inside.
How common is each?
Over the years the two meet in all five, some more often than others.
| Aspect | How common |
|---|---|
| Sun conjunct Moon | about one birth in eighteen |
| Sun sextile Moon | about one birth in thirteen |
| Sun square Moon | about one birth in ten |
| Sun trine Moon | about one birth in ten |
| Sun opposite Moon | about one birth in eighteen |
Measured every six hours from 1920 to 2030: the share of births whose chart shows each aspect between them, within the orbs every chart here is cast with.
Find your own aspects
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every aspect between your planets, with how close each one is.