Each year the Sun makes an astrological journey of discovery that can increase your self-awareness, and encourage you to be mindful of the vast potential life has to offer. Let’s take a brief trip to track the Sun on that journey, so we can understand how it relates to you and your life. As the Sun moves through the 12 signs of the zodiac, it channels the energy of each one of those areas in the sky that we call signs, providing the sources of the currents of thoughts and emotions that manifest in your life, and in the lives of those around you.
A word first, though, about a few details, starting with the matter of the dates when the Sun enters each sign. This is necessary because from year to year the actual time and date of the Sun’s entry into a particular sign varies just a little, as though the signs divide the sky into 360 degrees, those degrees have to fit into a calendar year of 365.25 days. There is no reason to go into further details, except to emphasize that the dates we use here for changes of the Sun from one sign to another are simply useful averages, a way of helping you understand how the zodiac relates to the calendar.
For convenience, we often consider the journey of the Sun to start in Aries, the first sign of the zodiac. The Sun moves into Aries around March 21, which marks the first day of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere. The
