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
January 20 to February 18. Fixed air. Ruled by Uranus. Co-ruled traditionally by Saturn. It sets the tone the year is met through.
The body. The mask. The threshold. The way you arrive. 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 | 2nd house |
| Moon | 4th house |
| Mercury | 2nd house |
| Venus | 2nd house |
| Mars | 2nd house |
| Jupiter | 8th house |
| Saturn | 3rd house |
| Uranus | 6th house |
| Neptune | 3rd house |
| Pluto | 2nd 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 Moon | trine | Return Uranus | 0.01° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Jupiter | 0.10° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Sun | 0.38° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Neptune | 0.42° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Mars | 0.43° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Saturn | 0.49° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Neptune | 0.68° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mars | 0.70° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Sun | 0.80° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 0.85° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Pluto | 1.28° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Saturn | 1.54° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Moon | 1.55° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Pluto | 1.56° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Mercury | 1.68° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Pluto | 1.84° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Neptune | 1.96° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mercury | 2.10° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Pluto | 2.22° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Neptune | 2.24° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Neptune | 2.45° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mercury | 2.48° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Saturn | 2.64° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Pluto | 2.64° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Pluto | 2.84° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 3.12° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Uranus | 3.15° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Sun | 3.40° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Venus | 3.65° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mars | 3.83° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Saturn | 3.92° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Mars | 3.98° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Venus | 4.07° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mars | 4.21° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Uranus | 4.42° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Venus | 4.45° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Mars | 4.63° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Sun | 4.68° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Uranus | 4.70° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mercury | 5.60° |