The conjunction

A conjunction is two planets in the same place. Their meanings fuse, for better or worse, and act as one.

What a conjunction means

A conjunction is the strongest aspect. The two planets lose their separate voices. Venus with Mars mixes love and desire. Saturn with the Moon puts duty in charge of feelings. A conjunction is not good or bad by itself: it is a lot of one thing in one place.

Angle and orb

A conjunction is 0° between two planets. Few aspects are exact, so astrologers allow an orb, a margin either side. Solstice uses 10° for a conjunction between planets in your chart.

Conjunction transits

• Chiron return: Around 50, old hurts and the means to tend them.
• Jupiter conjunct Sun: Your lucky year, every twelve years.
• Neptune conjunct Sun: Years when the self goes soft at the edges.
• Pluto conjunct Sun: Once in a life, a change of identity.
• Saturn conjunct Sun: A year of focus and limits, every 29 years.
• Uranus conjunct Sun: Once in a life, a sudden new self.
• Uranus return: Around 84, a late and strange freedom.