Astrocartography line

Sun DC line

Also called the Sun Descendant line. On your Wanderlines map it's the Sun setting line.

Here your own sunlight comes back to you in other people's faces

The Sun DC line marks the ground where the Sun was going down in the west as you arrived in the world. Other people carry the light there. The Sun moves onto your relocated Descendant, the doorway of partnership, so lovers, close friends and collaborators tend to bring you the warmth and confidence you sometimes struggle to give yourself.

Sun settingYour relocated 7th house
Find where my Sun DC line runs
World map showing the Sun DC line for a sample chart
The Sun DC line for a sample chart, born 14 June 1992 at 09:20 in Lisbon. Yours runs somewhere else, set by your own birth minute.

Where does your Sun DC line run?

Add your birth date, time and place. Hali draws your own Sun DC line on the map and names the cities it passes through.

Birth date
Birth time

Living on your Sun DC line

Within days the invitations start. A neighbour knocks with spare tomatoes and stays for an hour. The person beside you at the bar turns out to run exactly the studio you hoped to find. Life arrives through other people here, and they are often bright, self assured types who see something in you and say so plainly.

Living here long term, you may notice that your best ideas come out in conversation rather than alone at a desk. Partnerships carry real weight. A spouse or a business partner can arrive and change your direction. Some find the bright one in the room is always somebody else, and the lesson is learning to shine back rather than simply admire.

Love

Romance here can come with a confident, sunny partner who likes to lead the dance. Lovely, as long as you still get to choose the music sometimes.

Work and money

Work grows through collaboration, clients and contracts rather than solo heroics. Find the right partner and the whole venture can catch light.

Home and daily life

Expect guests, borrowed chairs and someone else's shoes by the door. Daily life feels sociable and rarely lonely.

The harder side

It is easy to hand your sunlight to a partner and forget you have any of your own. Keep one project, one hobby or one weekly walk that belongs only to you.

Visit or stay

A wonderful line for a season of meeting people, and for a life if partnership is what you want at the centre. Fiercely independent travellers may prefer it in shorter doses.

When to go

Doing everything alone has stopped being a virtue and started being a habit.

Your first day there

Buy a pair of something on arrival, cups, tickets or oranges, and give the spare to whoever you talk to first.

One line is one chapter. Your map holds the whole story.

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Your chart, moved here

Standing on this line puts Sun right on your relocated Descendant, the doorway of your 7th house. In the chart for this place, it reads much like Sun in the 7th house.

Read Sun in the 7th house

Questions about the Sun DC line

What does the Sun DC line mean?

The Sun DC line marks the ground where the Sun was going down in the west as you arrived in the world. Other people carry the light there. The Sun moves onto your relocated Descendant, the doorway of partnership, so lovers, close friends and collaborators tend to bring you the warmth and confidence you sometimes struggle to give yourself.

Is the Sun DC line good?

Often yes, especially for love, friendship and business partnerships. The only catch is remembering that the brilliant people you meet are reflecting something that is already yours.

Should I live on my Sun DC line?

A wonderful line for a season of meeting people, and for a life if partnership is what you want at the centre. Fiercely independent travellers may prefer it in shorter doses.

How close do I need to be to my Sun DC line?

Astrologers usually read a line as strongest within a few hundred kilometres, softening as you move away. A line through the ocean is felt most on the nearest coasts.

Do I need my exact birth time?

Yes. The Earth turns a little every minute, so a time a few minutes out moves every line east or west. Use the most exact time you can find, ideally from a birth certificate.

How do I find my Sun DC line?

Use the check on this page, or open your free Wanderlines map, which draws every line you have and reads any city you choose.

The astrocartography guide

Your other Sun lines

Everything about the Sun line

DC lines for every planet

Somewhere on the map, a city is already waiting for you. Find out which one.

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