Solar Return · year chart · Solar Arc · directions
How the Solar Return works
Once a year the Sun returns to its natal degree, near your birthday. Asteria casts a chart for that exact moment and layers it over your natal wheel.
The return Ascendant is how you meet the year: the face, the body-tone, the way the chapter greets you. The return Sun's house is where vitality and focus pool for twelve months. The return Moon is the emotional current underneath those two.
The house-overlay table shows which natal houses this year's return planets activate. The return-to-natal aspects name which birth stories the year reopens, tightest first.
Solar Return is the weather of the year. Solar Arc (the other tab on this hub) is the architecture of turning-points. They share a word and almost nothing else.
The year's chart
April 20 to May 20. Fixed earth. Ruled by Venus. It sets the tone the year is met through.
Creation. Play. Pleasure. Children. The radiance of the self. This is where the year's vitality and focus concentrate.
The emotional current of the year: what will need tending and where the feeling-life is drawn.
House overlay
Where each return planet falls in your natal houses: the areas of life this year's chart switches on.
| Return planet | Lands in natal |
|---|---|
| Sun | 6th house |
| Moon | 5th house |
| Mercury | 6th house |
| Venus | 6th house |
| Mars | 4th house |
| Jupiter | 4th house |
| Saturn | 12th house |
| Uranus | 1st house |
| Neptune | 11th house |
| Pluto | 9th house |
Return-to-natal aspects
Every aspect the return chart makes back to your birth chart, tightest first.
| Natal | Aspect | Return | Orb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Sun | 0.00° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Pluto | 0.61° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Uranus | 0.62° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Mars | 0.81° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Mercury | 0.88° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Neptune | 1.05° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Saturn | 1.15° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Moon | 1.16° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Saturn | 1.19° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Sun | 1.24° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Saturn | 1.27° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Mercury | 1.54° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Mars | 1.56° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Pluto | 1.67° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.68° |
| Natal Mars | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.75° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Venus | 1.83° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Neptune | 1.89° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Neptune | 2.11° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Pluto | 2.33° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Mars | 2.62° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Venus | 3.09° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 3.62° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Sun | 3.67° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Saturn | 3.82° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Jupiter | 3.98° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Venus | 4.25° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Neptune | 4.48° |
| Natal Venus | opposition | Return Uranus | 4.61° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Saturn | 4.82° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Mars | 5.78° |
| Natal Neptune | conjunction | Return Pluto | 5.90° |