Here Sun (your core self) meets Chiron (your wound that can heal). How strongly it shows depends on the orb, the distance from the exact angle: the smaller it is, the clearer the aspect.
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Your birth date is enough. You do not need time or place here.
Your birth date is enough. You do not need time or place here.
The math runs on the Swiss Ephemeris, the same base professional astrology software is built on. The result is accurate to the arc-second, and free.
You see right away whether you have the aspect and how tight the orb is, along with a reading you can check against your own everyday life.
The same aspect also keeps forming in the current sky, and then it works as a transit. When Sun and Chiron are in square up there right now, it applies to everyone, not only to people who have this aspect in their birth chart. Here will meets old wounds, and the two themes rub against each other, with small tensions and impatience in the air. Depending on how fast the planets involved move, it lasts a few hours to a few days, or weeks for the slow ones.
Between Sun (your core self) and Chiron (your wound that can heal) this aspect leaves about 90°. As a square, that means: friction that pushes you to act.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Aspect | Square (90°) |
| Orb in the calculator | ± 7° |
| Typical sign distance | 3 signs |
| Character | tense, demanding |
| Sun | your core self |
| Chiron | your wound that can heal |
| Needs birth time | no, the date is enough |
Continue with the overview of all astrology aspects and with Sun Conjunction Chiron. Which life areas the aspect connects is shown by the house calculator. When a moving planet forms this angle to your chart, it appears in your personalized daily horoscope. The planets themselves are explained in the planets overview, and between two people the compatibility chart compares the same angles.
Sun Square Chiron appears in 7.8 % of all births from 1940 to 2010, counting an orb of up to 7° as we do here. Among 711 aspect combinations that occur at all, that is number 162 by frequency. Between Sun and Chiron it is the most common of the five aspects.
This is plain geometry: Sun and Chiron move through the zodiac independently. A square exists twice on the circle, once on each side. With an orb of up to 7° it covers 28° in total, which is 7.8 % of 360°. The conjunction and opposition exist only once, so they are rarer.
In the sky, Sun Square Chiron becomes exact 1.96 times a year on average. It then usually stays within 1° for 2.1 days at a stretch, 4.1 days a year in total. Of the 2,219 famous people in our database, 161 have it for certain, for example Bill Gates, Andy Warhol and Enrico Fermi.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Share of births | 7.8 % |
| Rank among all combinations | 162 / 711 |
| Orb | 7° |
| No aspect between Sun and Chiron | 70.1 % |
| Exact in the sky per year | 1.96 |
| Days a year within 1° | 4.1 |
| Longest stretch within 1° | 3 days |
| Famous people (of 2,219) | 161 |
Counted with the Swiss Ephemeris: 25,933 birth charts, one for every day from 1940 to 2010 at 12:00 UT, orbs as in the calculator. Sky: every day 1900–2100. Famous people: Wikidata, only where the aspect holds for the whole birth day.
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