Sun square Ascendant natal causes relationship difficulties when people try to hold you back or stand in the way of your success. In one-to-one relationships, the main problem is that your needs are incompatible with theirs. Unfortunately, you may have to sacrifice a friendship or learn to cope with stressful conditions to reach your goals.

You may sacrifice your needs and ambitions early to keep a relationship going. On the other hand, you may change yourself or your goals to fit in and to have companionship. While this may keep other people happy, it will build dissatisfaction and resentment.

You will realize that you must be true to yourself and not live as others wish. If you keep trying to please others to maintain harmony, you will lose their respect and be used and abused.

Your path is complex, with many trials and errors as you learn to relate to others and build self-confidence. Setting ambitious goals will force you to strengthen your character and live your own life. Professional success will bring great satisfaction and pride. You will earn your peers’ respect, and healthy, stable relationships will follow.

Sun Square Ascendant Transit

Sun square Ascendant transit means you will spend much time and energy dealing with others. Unfortunately, a tendency toward selfishness can lead you to try to dominate others, or for others to try to dominate you. You may waste too much time and energy trying to get your way, so make sure what you are fighting for is worth it.

Self-awareness is the key to dealing with this competitive energy. If you believe your intentions serve your long-term interests, push ahead confidently despite the initial backlash. In most cases, however, people will feel so threatened by your actions that they will work against you. If these people have power and authority over you, tactical retreat or compromise is best.

This Direction stirs up many distempers in the Body, it begets the discontent and frowne of a Prince, or Person in some Magistracy, or a Nobleman, &c. but this always according to the quality of the Native: It prenotes Death or Danger unto the Father, if the fortunate Planets do not afflict with their aspects; many Losses, Crosses Deceits, decay of Estate, sore Eyes, and other Cholerick Diseases shall afflict the Native: There is lesse appearance of these things in the square aspect, then Imprisonment, damage by Sea-voyages, by his undertakings for great Men, and from thence great consumption of his Estate; it’s ever portended a bad yeer, full of Contention, and Suits in Law. [Christian Astrology, William Lilly, 1647, p.661.]

This Sun square Ascendant transit interpretation can also apply to a Solar Eclipse and New Moon square Ascendant.

Sun Square Ascendant Celebrities

Jawaharlal Nehru 0°00′, Stormy Daniels 0°07′, Elizabeth Taylor 0°10′, Chris Brown 0°13′, Ian Thorpe 0°16′, Al Pacino 0°19′, Jack Nicholson 0°23′, Michelangelo 0°27′, John Malkovich 0°36′, William Henry Drummond 0°43′, Erik Menendez 0°45′, Charles II of England 0°50′, Joe Pesci 0°51′, Susan Miller 0°52′, Agatha Christie 0°57′, Gloria Estefan 0°58′, Amelia Earhart 1°03′, Carrie Fisher 1°10′, L. Ron Hubbard 1°10′, Liz Cheney 1°14′, Bernadette Brady 1°14′, Paul McCartney 1°19′, Whoopi Goldberg 1°19′, Iggy Pop 1°23′, Oliver North 1°31′, Nancy Reagan 1°31′, Denzel Washington 1°39′, Alan Dershowitz 1°40′, Vincent Price 1°40′, Cary Grant 1°44′, Irene Cara 1°48′, William Lilly 1°55′.