Sun

The Sun is the center a chart turns around: the essential self, the source of vitality, the purpose a life is reaching to express. It governs identity and conscious will — who someone is becoming when they are most fully themselves — and it lends its warmth most naturally to Leo, the sign of the radiant heart.

Dimmed or strained, the Sun's light can curdle into ego or a self so set on its own glow that it cannot see others. Well-lit, it is the steady confidence of a life lived from its own center — the will to be, plainly.