That which is under our noses remains quite invisible to us. Nothing can be truer than this. And it definitely takes a rude shock to jolt us awake and see reality - the truth of things, as they are and not as we desire to see. While I have been practising astrology for quite a long while now, the passing away of my father shook me up rudely from a slumber to really go in search of the father energy that has suddenly vanished from my life.

Automatically, attention turns to the pitamaha Surya, the grand nourisher of everything in the universe - impartially, always, whether good or bad, flowers or thorns, robbers or saints - each one getting the same amount of heat and light from that one source! Sun or Surya is the pratyaksha devata - the one visible God and luminary who is present day after day, witnessing and guiding the life journey of all individuals and organisms, yet we barely but acknowledge this every day miracle.Sun is the king of the zodiac. It cannot be emphasised more that the quality of life of an individual can be determined first and foremost from the position of Sun in the horoscope. After all, a powerful king is capable of building a powerful kingdom and to the contrary a weak King may barely manage to keep things together. An exalted or a strongly posited Sun ensures life extraordinaire.

Since the Sun is the aatmakaraka (significator of self) and controls the domains of self and ego, confidence, soul purpose an individual with a strong Sun in the birth chart moves from a place of tremendous conviction and confidence - in one's ideas as well as self. The need for external validation is little. (One may be pursuing a flawed or faulty idea but these are matters of influence from other planets too.) What can be said with certainty though is that such an individual builds an effective universe of activity around oneself. Likewise, if an individual's horoscope has a debilitated, afflicted or weakly posited Sun, the immediate issues arising are those related to lack of self-esteem and ill-placed expression of self-righteousness.

Usually, the individual is unable to see one's true place in the hierarchy or accept where one stands. In these cases, there may be extreme discomfort with people in position of authority, in taking orders or being told what to do! Also commonly observed problems in this case relate to legal problems or issues with government or government officials and bureaucrats, police system, loss through commodity trading especially of gold etc. There may also be difference of opinion with father/ father figure or loss of father at an early age.

Emotional or physical distance maybe present in relationship with father in some way. Sun's position in a particular Bhava/house may indicate an area in net brilliance for that position. And since this planet is the sole significative it may also indicate nice purpose or a big area of work in one's life time.