Sun/Moon Midpoint: The Symbol of Inner Unification
In natal chart analysis, when we have a focal point (i.e. a planet or an Angle) in hard aspect with the Sun/Moon midpoint, the planet or the Angle often becomes the catalyst for our deepest need fulfillment & creative self expression.
In synastry, when another person’s (e.g. spouse, business partner, teacher, client, boss etc) focal point makes a hard aspect with our Sun/Moon midpoint, it has a similar impact on us, almost as if we can use the energy from our partner’s chart to experience the sense of deep unification and effective self expression.
In this sense, the synastry aspects involving the Sun/Moon midpoint becomes important in professional and personal relationships – in both cases, we can express and fulfill our innermost needs through the help of another person more than if we just tried to do so on our own.
How Do I Find My Sun/Moon Midpoint?
You’ll need to know the exact degree of your Sun and the Moon to arrive at the correct Sun/Moon midpoint. You can use the online midpoint calculator to find it, unless you can do it manually. It would be useful to know your partner’s Sun/Moon midpoint as well to see if your focal points make a hard aspect to it.
Examples of Synastry Aspects involving the Sun/Moon Midpoint
Note that the equal sign (‘=’) denotes conjunction, square or opposition.
- Their Mercury = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their attitude, ideas and communication help you to express yourself more fully, and find your own voice.
- Their Venus = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their love, affection and/or friendship help you to love and accept yourself and others better, and be more effective in social settings.
- Their Mars = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their action, motivation and self assertion help you to become more proactive and assertive in general.
- Their Jupiter = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their optimism, generosity and enthusiasm help you to become more positive and optimistic about life.
- Their Saturn = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their wisdom, integrity and discipline may help you become wiser and more mature. On the other hand, their fears and challenges may lead to frustration as well as personal growth. Like any Saturn aspect, this one tends to get better with time if you can persevere during rough periods.
- Their Uranus = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their individuality may help you realize your own uniqueness & the need for independence from others’ opinions. On the other hand, their aloofness may make you feel alienated.
- Their Neptune = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their spirituality, creativity and idealism may help you to reconnect with your own dreams, faith and imagination. On the other hand, their addictive or escapist behaviors may make you feel deceived or abandoned.
- Their Pluto = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their intensity and emotional honesty may help you access a deeper part of yourself, leading to profound healing or transformation. On the other hand, their desire for power and control may lead to a struggle for dominance in the relationship, with strong undercurrent of unspoken emotions.
- Their Ascendant = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their personal expression and authenticity may help you to be more secure in your own identity and self expression.
- Their Midheaven = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: Their career and public status may somehow help you to succeed in your own work.
- Their Nodal Axis (North or South Node) = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint: This could be a very meaningful relationship with a sense of karmic connection. They may help you to connect with a larger group of people.
UPDATE: What about Their Sun or Moon = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint?
While Sun=Sun/Moon or Moon=Sun/Moon is generally not considered in regular midpoint analysis, in synastry this can be an important contact. In both cases, another person’s core energy is making a strong contact with your point of relationship fulfillment and self expression. This synastry contact can suggest a highly fulfilling and supportive relationship, regardless of whether it’s a marriage/love relationship, business partnership, or a teacher/student relationship.
Looking at the Sun/Moon Midpoint in Your Own Relationships
Were you able to locate yours & your partner’s Sun/Moon midpoint? Did you notice a significant aspect to the midpoint? Feel free to share what you found out via emails or comments!
Reference: In case you missed it, here is the original post on Midpoints in Astrology
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what about their sun?
As a rule, the midpoint measurement A=B/C would not make sense if A is equal to B or C, so it’s not interpreted in Solar Arc or transit. In the case of synastry contact, we might be able to make an exception…With that said, I feel that Sun or Moon in strong aspect to another person’s Sun/Moon midpoint could generate quite a good feeling between the two people.
I’m surprised you didn’t include either “Their Sun = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint” or “Their Moon = Your Sun/Moon Midpoint” in your synastry examples. Can you say anything specific about either of them like you did the other planets?
Read above comment please.
My Sun?Moon Midpoint is conjunct my partner’s Sun/Moon Midpoint in the sign of Taurus (my 1st house and his 2nd house). Would you please explain what this means? Additionally, my Moon and Venus in Taurus are conjunct his Sun/Moon Midpoint in Taurus in my 1st house.
Thank you so much for your time.
Let me just add the answer to the post as an update, as this question keeps coming up despite being answered in the previous comment.
Sorry to bother you again. What about the conjunction of the Sun/Moon Midpoints between 2 people?
Thank you.
I think you’d need a planet or an Angle to activate the midpoint contact (which you do, since your Moon and Venus are involved) What’s interesting here is that both of you will be experiencing a transiting aspect to your Sun/Moon midpoint at the same time. So things could feel very good or very bad depending on the quality of the transit to your Sun/Moon midpoint (an amplified response, like two people playing in unison.)
I am so confused. what does it mean when it says: “parallel aspects between natal planets orb 0°40 / 0°20 (Midpoints)” and it refers to midpoints? for example: mars // moon/jupiter
this is shown at astro.com for keller midpoints section at the very bottom of the midpoint chart.
thanks.
Parallel refers to declination (similar to latitude), whereas all of the midpoint discussion in this article refers to right ascension (similar to longitude.) All planetary positions you see in the horoscope (25 Aries, etc) refers to right ascension. I recommend you keep it simple and not worry about the midpoints calculated off the declination.