Sun: Your compass, purpose, light when you get existential crisis

your depression pill

Sep 12, 2025

Thanks to pop astrology, we all know our sun signs. This is why, I can skip the whole process of guiding you to identify your sun sign for this piece - yay!

But what most of us do not realize is that our sun sign is so powerful when it comes to navigating the hardest times of our lives. Sun is fire. Sun is hope. Sun is light…life! Most of us fall into depression during transits where this element is shadowed. The last few years have been hard for me as Saturn transited through my Pisces Sun. It’s almost like my light was eclipsed and its sunshine was in-accessible. Joy became in-accessible, and the mundane-ness took over. I wondered if I bring anything to anyone’s life? I wondered about my purpose. What am I here for? What was I made for? *read it in Billie Ellish*

Your sun is not just your own light, it’s the light you bring to other people’s lives. This is why, in Gene Keys, your sun sign is known as your Personal Brand. It’s the light you brought to this earth the moment you were born. It’s your gift to this earth. In synastry, wherever your sun falls into another’s chart, that’s what you are illuminating.

So, if you are in a space where you wonder,

what is unique about me?

What do I even bring to the table?

Do I have anything to give, to offer, to gift?

If you are in a place where you want to work with your self-esteem and self-confidence. go to the altar of your sun sign (which is what I am doing right now after some of the hardest years of my life behind me). Your sun sign builds your ego and your identity, without which we keep wandering in search of “who am I” and what am I here for?

And of course, I know because I am a 0-degree Sun Pisces and it’s an overarching theme in my life to find myself and my purpose. I often lean on others to shine their light on my gifts with Sun placed in my 7th house of personal relationships. These relationships reflect and mirror the gifts and talents in me, which otherwise, I am mostly unaware of.

It’s so interesting to learn this because for the longest time self-development niches sold us the idea of having to go on a solitary trip to find yourself. And while I value the hermit mode as a Virgo rising that I am, I also now know that my greatest medicine comes through people close to me when it’s about becoming aware of who I am. I used to think I am highly aware about myself because I journal a lot, or I spend time with myself, and I am so deeply into self-development healing modalities. However, its only recently when I have realized uhmm.. no? My closest relationships are my greatest anchor who help me see my potential in a way I am unable to. They mirror back my truth and my essence.

Leaning into your sun sign can give you the grounding you need to be in your healthy ego. It can support you to understand your identity and to discover the gifts and light you bring to this world. It can also support your vitality and life force energy since Sun rules that. If you feel like your vitality is dimming, you need to embody your Sun so that your solar plexus can get activated.

And what’s even more interesting is that, you can always look at what sun signs are you attracting in your life. It shows what area of your life is being illuminated and what are you learning through it.

Pisces Sun

Pisces sun, you are the healing balm for the collective. You fight battles everyday that no one can see through their eyes. It’s hard for you to see your own light as you’re often busy shining light on other people’s ego. But you’re gift to this world is priceless. Simply your presence can heal the ailing and heartbroken. Your deep understanding and compassion allow people to give themselves the second chances they thought they didn’t have anymore. You are empathetic and sensitive, oh so deeply, sensitive. Once you learn about your super powers, you can stop feeling ashamed and guilty of your emotional depth, compassion and empathy. You can instead lean into your spiritual gifts of healing and forgiveness. You radiate unconditional love. You can make art that moves people. You can reach the crevices of people’s heart and crack them open through your poetry. I hope you realize that just one conversation with a pisces sun can change the trajectory of anyone’s life. I hope you treasure your energy and don’t give it away. I hope you see your own light just as sweetly as you see that of others’. Your presence and wisdom might be subtle, but that’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to be loud or blaring to shine. Your quietness is a gift to this chaotic world. Marvel in it and share it as often as you can without being a sponge.

So I wrote this draft earlier this year. And guess who just hosted an offline women’s circle dedicated to tapping into their Sun recently? :)

Aquarius Sun

You are eccentric. You are weird. While that makes you feel alone, you have no idea how less alone you make people around you feel when you let yourself be seen in your eccentricity. You are meant to be the odd one out. You are meant to do things that no one else does. You are meant to be deeply unconventional, unpredictable. When you chase uncharted paths, you give other people the permission to do the same. When you take a stand for a cause that is ignored, you invite radical change. Your oddness is healing. When an Aquarius sun learns how to stop giving a f**k, they are unstoppable. The world is in dire need of pioneer and visionary like you who don’t just dream of a perfect world but have the courage to build it. You are the opposite of Leo, you don’t care about public adulation on a core level. The moment you stop chasing belongingness, you will start changing this world that you are quite tired of atm. You need to unapologetically own your oddness and pursue things that are odd. You, my friend, got to be the brand ambassador of ‘weird’. If an Aquarius is blending in to a point at which you can’t see their weirdness, we know something has gone wrong. Heck, you are meant to create communities of weird people doing weird sh*t, Aquarius Sun.

Capricorn Sun

Capricorn Suns are extremely ambitious and they are blessed with the ability to build and sustain structures, legacy and families. They are the traditional archetype of masculine provider. They are motivated by money, but not the one that comes and goes. They are here to build a long-lasting legacy, something that surpasses time (their ruler Saturn rules time). They thrive in discipline and devotion. Capricorn Suns need something to be devoted to, and if they don’t have it, they can get controlling. The Capricorn has the tendency to be patriarchal and hierarchical in its shadow since most of our systems come from Capricorn Age. It is important for Capricorn Suns to soften without giving up the hustle entirely. It is important for Capricorn Suns to be as devoted to their body, their soul, their home, their life and their spirituality as much as they are devoted to their career and money, if not more. Learn the difference devotion and slavery and you will thrive Capricorn Suns.

Sagittarius Sun

Sag Suns are here to invite us to broaden the landscape of our minds. They open us to possibilities and limitless potential. They are diversely talented in arts, music, theatre, dance…A Sagittarius sun is an explorer and is constantly on a journey to learn about a higher truth. After all it is ruled by Jupiter. If you are a Sag sun and you’re not immersing yourself in experiences that push you beyond your usual life, you are dimming your vital life force. Are you doing okay, I’d ask? A sag sun thrives on learning and sharing about the wisdom they have collected through their travels and journeys. It is also important to know that not all journeys are physical. Some are mental, some are emotional, and some soulful and spiritual. Take all of them in equal measures. Don’t run behind dopamine. Craft experiences, curate journeys. Your talents can take people through these experiences and journeys. Your art is not fluff. It’s an experience. When you see your talents through that lens, you become unafraid to own your light.

Scorpio Sun

As a Scorpio Sun, you are here to illuminate the shadows. This is why you need to be comfortable in your shadows - and as you grow, life can force you to learn it. You are a walking shadow work manual. You encourage people, even if unconsciously, to look at what is unseen. You see the unseen. Scorpio suns are extremely intuitive and born psychics. Their gift of accessing the underworld should be protected and guarded, otherwise they can go to dangerous places. If a Scorpio is not living their healing gifts, they can drive themselves mad with that psycho-analyzing energy. Immersing themselves in healing occult practices can help them channel their Scorpio energy. A Scorpio Sun is alchemical and can teach people how to transmute pain into power through their light. A lot of people with darkness are attracted to them because of this. Like other water signs, Scorpio Suns need to learn boundaries. They can be great healers, leaders, psychologists, therapists.

Libra Sun

Libras illuminate relationships and beauty. If you are a Libra Sun, relationships will be an over-arching theme in your life. You are here to harmonize relationships and connections. You teach others how to work in partnerships by embodying understanding and diplomacy in you. You are also illuminating the feminine archetypes in people, healing patrirachal wounds in feminine energy. You encourage people to honour and celebrate their Venusian energy. You respect beauty and you adore people in arts. You make for an excellent brand ambassador of all things beauty. You are a connector and you really help people connect with the right people, brands, ideas. This is your role as a Libra Sun. Sometimes, people pleasing can make it difficult for you to be honest and authentic and hence it’ll be always a learning curve for you to retqain your truth and realness inspite of the connections and influence you own.

Virgo Sun

A virgo sun’s presence can push people to embrace true healing and health. This is not just physical health but also mental and emotional. Virgo Suns are naturally service oriented and helpful. They want to serve. They want to help. They want to be of use for the collective. This needs to be checked otherwise they can attach their worth to their usability and perfection. In their light, virgo suns are an examples of people who are devoted to their service, analyzing and fact checking every detail with precision. If you want to get something done, get a virgo sun on board. They are masters of ‘get sh*t done*. They might make it look very effortless because of their mercury playfulness, but know that they put in a lot of work. Virgo Suns are here to push the collective into healing and refining teaching us that perfection is not the aim but a metric to keep yourself going. If you have a Virgo Sun in your life, you will eventually find yourself pushed to get serious in life and make the best of your time here.

Leo Sun

Contrary to Virgos, Leo Suns are here to illuminate the playful side of us. If you’re a Leo Sun, you are proud and charismatic. Your confidence and allureness can either cringe people or make them your die hard fans. Your job is to stay unbothered. While Leo Suns love adulation, they need to make sure they are not chasing it. Self-love is the biggest teacher of Leo Suns. They need to marvel at their own reflection, bigness and, talents. When they celebrate themselves, they give other people the permission to love themselves. Leo Suns are full of themselves, and good for them. They need to be. When a Leo Sun starts shrinking themselves, you know they will start shrinking you too. That’s never pretty. What a Leo Sun need to remember is that their might is their light. But please, don’t abuse it. They are truly very playful, warm people with a lightheartedness needed direly in this mundane, grey world. They make for great motivational speakers, entertainers, leaders, models, artists.

Cancer Sun

Cancer Suns are here to illuminate mother archetype in the collective. They invoke the primal need to care and be taken care of. Their presence is healing and cathartic. They innately understand the needs of other people and can intuitively give people what they need. They are nourishing and nurturing. Cancer Sun’s presence can ignite people to embrace their inner mother and encourage them to become caring - for themselves or other people in their life. This is why they make for excellent human resource, hospitality agents, hostesses, chefs, nurses nannys, etc. Their healing energy is not sponge-y like Pisces but robust like a crab. This is why they can come across as hard core but are actually very sensitive. When it comes to people they care about, they can go to great lengths to protect them. Cancer Suns are teaching us to be nurturing and nourishing. When you feel like your vitality is diminishing, you should realize that chances are you are not getting an opportunity to ‘take care’. Adopt a pet, nurture a gardern, become a part of a shared circle, or get in the kitchen…your sun will get a chance to heal.

Gemini Sun

A gemini sun activates a person’s ability to bridge the gap through connection and communication. Gemini suns are here to enable people to share. They are here to support people’s purpose and message through the words that they are gifted with. This is why many Gemini suns find themselves a natural marketeer. Ruled by mercury, they have the power to mutate between diferent realms and ideologies. This is why their blending nature can bridge gaps between worlds. It can bring people from different groups, countries, ideologies together under one roof. They are like hummingbirds going from one place to another always leaving traces of their journey. Many people might allege them of plagiarizing or copying but a Gemini sun has the beautiful ability to laugh off ‘originality’. A gemini understands that originality is a myth and inspiration and innovation is the only path to evolution. At the same time, it is necessary for Geminis to not fall into the trap of manipulating the truth in the name of humour, fun or injecting freshness f

or the sake of it.

Taurus Sun

A taurus sun is here to bless us with their slow, steady and reliable presence. When they walk into a room, or heaven’s bless you, your life, you find yourself soften in a way you never thought you could. Ruled by Venus and being a sign where moon is exalted, Taurus Suns are here to remind us that life is not a race. They inspire us to live a life nourished and hydrated. They are slow creatures and inspire people around them to savour life instead of gulping it down. This is why sometimes, they can feel frustrating for people who are not ready to slow down and savour. Taurus suns have a pace of their own and they hate being rushed. Don’t get them wrong though. They are not lazy or an escapist. If anything they are hardworking. A taurus sun shines light on parts of us that believe that we have to sacrifice our love for life, and its pleasures, for work, money or success. They shine light on parts of us that believed that receptivity and femininity is for the weak and marginalized.

Aries Sun

An Aries Sun’s purpose is to usher us into a new era. Aries is the first sign of zodiac ruled by Mars, meaning it comes with an intense amount of energy. This is why Aries energy and especially an Aries sun, can feel ‘too much’ and sometimes, too soon. It’s fast and impulsive. And so, while an Aries sun might have to learn patience the hard way, they activate people around them to listen to their raw impulses. They inspire people to live in the ‘now’ and act in the moment through their gut response rather than their logical reasoning. An Aries Sun is a self aware and self-obsessed, both in equal measures. They know who they are and what they want. When their radical decision-making triggers us, it is our call to trust in ourselves just as much as they do. They give off a fierce, dangerous, reckless vibe because maybe, they are. They are quite infamous for their anger because they are reminding us the sacredness of ‘no’. They are the finest teachers who teach us about saying no to what we don’t want so that we can say yes to what we do. They give us the courage to follow and pursue our wants unabashedly and unapologetically.

So who are the people in your life? What are they shining their light on? What are you activating in other people’s life?