Understanding and Nurturing Children Based on Their Sun Sign

Understanding your sun sign child’s personality helps tailor your parenting style.

What Does the Sun Represent?

In astrology, your sun sign reveals your child’s core personality and life blueprint. Let’s think about blueprints for a moment. Let’s think about blueprints for a moment; it’s the detailed sketch that guides a project towards perfect completion. Blueprints can be used in architecture, engineering and business, all to the same effect. Whether your blueprint is of a 46 story high rise, a strip mall, a Tudor home or a water park, each one will have different needs in order to reach its full potential.

One of the best gifts of astrology is its ability to shed light on the different ways to exist. We have this tendency to believe that our worldview is the only worldview, so when people exist outside of that view, we tend to think they’re crazy and wrong. What’s really crazy (and very wrong) is assuming that everyone thinks like you, loves like you, and values what you value.

So, some of us are meant to be green houses and castles and observatories, while others are museums and skyscrapers. Understanding your child’s sun sign is about understanding who they are at their core, and who they are meant to become (not who you want them to become).

How Each Sun Sign Child Personality Manifests and What They Need

To truly nurture a sun sign child personality, we must recognize the traits and needs that each sign naturally expresses.

Aries Sun

An Aries kid needs independence. Work to cultivate an empowered sense of independence in them. This doesn’t mean you should ignore them, but try letting them make some decisions and feel like an important member of the family. By age 3 you should be signing them up for as many sports as you can–they need an appropriate place to channel all that Aries energy!

Taurus Sun

Your Taurus kid needs to feel safe in their home, and not just the basic necessities. You should set up a “cozy corner” in the living room. This corner could be filled with pillows, soft blankets, stuffies and noise cancelling head phones. While a Taurus sun is usually pretty easy going, they’re also as stubborn as a bull, so having a place where they can feel safe and cozy is going to feel like a parenting life hack.

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Gemini Sun

Gemini kids thrive when they have options. Your Gemini child is going to grow into a funny, smart and intelligent person, so giving them lots of different tools to help stimulate their mental functions early in life is exactly what the doctor ordered! Give them 2-3 different beverages at dinner time; make their room be an explosion of color. It’s going to be the perfect set up for a delicious life of learning. 

Cancer Sun

Since Cancer is a water sign, they are going to be empaths from the very start, meaning that you’ll need to learn how to emotionally regulate. Don’t push down and hide your “negative” feelings, instead learn how to say “Daddy is feeling frustrated and that means I’m a little more angry than usual, can we go for a walk around the block instead of playing this game?” Don’t be afraid to talk to your Cancer kids about your feelings, it’s actually what they need!

Leo Sun

Like most living things, your Leo sun child will wither without enough attention. Leos are the superstars of the zodiac, so prepare for many impromptu living room performances! One thing you never want to phone in is their birthday party celebrations. In short, find any excuse to remind your Leo kiddo that they are special and have star quality.

Virgo Sun

It’s best to not ever use the phrase “I promise…” unless you are 500% sure that you can follow through. If you fall back on too many promises, or if you prove to be untrustworthy in other ways, your Virgo child will remember. They tend to be more practical and more methodical than their peers, so sign them up for science classes. 

Libra Sun

Talk to these kids, even when they are babies and in utero! Communication is going to be their greatest gift; some Libra suns have been known to grasp language much earlier than their peers. Make sure to socialize them young by taking parent and tot classes starting when they are around 12 months because they learn better in groups. 

Scorpio Sun

Scorpio kids value their personal space and alone time. So, once they begin to grow up, teach them how to ask for personal space. On that note, never cross a personal boundary that they set. Their privacy is very important, so while some parents want to know everything their kids are doing, this can have severe repercussions for the Scorpio child’s trust in you (and in the world).

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Sagittarius Sun

Sagittarius suns are hands-on learners. So, a kids science class where they get to make slime is going to be much better for their brains than trying to learn from a lecture or video. They can be independent to a fault, so be cautious of letting them roam in public, if you look away they might sprint off towards their next adventure!

Capricorn Sun

Capricorn children tend to have Benjamin Button quality to them, in that they start off old and get younger as they get older. They require honesty, within reason of course, but blatant dishonesty affects their overall outlook on life. Before you introduce them to Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, maybe explain to them that at least some of it is a fun game of make believe.

Aquarius Sun

Aquarius kids require a lot of independence for their unique and quirky personalities to blossom. It’s important to foster a lifelong sense of curiosity not just in your Aquarius child, but in yourself as well. That’s because these kids have a natural proclivity for any modality on the fringes of society. So your job is to not make them feel like a weirdo in their own home if they get into something like taxidermy.

Pisces Sun

As soon as you can, introduce your Pisces sun child to art. Have them listen to lots of classical music before nap time, let them finger paint, color and dance all throughout their toddler years and beyond. Remember that their more challenging emotions are just as valid as their happy emotions; if you negate one, the other will also be stifled. So, embrace their full range of emotions (and your own while you’re at it).

Embracing your child’s unique zodiac sign personality is one of the greatest gifts astrology can offer.