In these texts, A is the person whose Sun is read and B the person whose Moon receives it.
Here the Moon represents imagination and fantasy. The Sun–Moon relationship is interpreted as a meeting of polarities, which tradition calls the masculine principle and the feminine principle. These are symbolic terms: they do not depend on the sex of the members of the couple.
Facilitating contact
The other’s presence brings a sense of well-being and of completion. There may be a strong mutual attraction and the impression that each finds in their partner a kindred polarity. Within the system, this is considered an important indicator of compatibility.
Obstructing contact
The meeting of those polarities may feel conflictive and awaken wariness about deepening the bond. This difficulty is examined together with other elements: favorable aspects of Venus with Venus or of Venus with the Sun, for example, can bring affinity and moderate the tension.
Aspects of the Sun
The Sun represents personal radiance, the way we defend our own territory and the conditions under which we allow other people to come close. It relates to behaviors we feel are our own, even when we don’t recognize having learned them from those around us.
Sometimes a family is surprised by a reaction and wonders where that way of acting came from. That surprise invites us to look at what we need in order to let someone into our space, why we find it easy to approach certain people and why other presences feel threatening. It also lets us ask ourselves how others perceive us.
When the traits of the Sun match what was learned in inventory 1, their expression may feel more natural. If they differ from what the family or the culture expects, we may try to resemble an image we don’t feel is our own. In that search for acceptance, the “masks” we have spoken about appear.
In your love relationship that question comes back: how much room you have to show yourself as you are, and how much you feel you must play a role in order to be accepted.
The intensity of the following aspects is read together with the other factors of the synastry, which can reinforce or moderate how they show up.