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
February 19 to March 20. Mutable water. Ruled by Neptune. Co-ruled traditionally by Jupiter. It sets the tone the year is met through.
Worth. Resources. What is owned. What is valued. The body as instrument. 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 | 11th house |
| Mercury | 5th house |
| Venus | 6th house |
| Mars | 5th house |
| Jupiter | 9th house |
| Saturn | 5th house |
| Uranus | 7th house |
| Neptune | 5th house |
| Pluto | 4th 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 | square | Return Moon | 0.57° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Uranus | 0.66° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Neptune | 0.73° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Saturn | 0.95° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.16° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Sun | 1.27° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Venus | 1.28° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Mercury | 1.34° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Mercury | 1.36° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Sun | 1.46° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Mars | 2.05° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Venus | 2.07° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Moon | 2.13° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Pluto | 2.30° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Saturn | 2.51° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Uranus | 3.58° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Sun | 3.78° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Sun | 3.97° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Jupiter | 4.11° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Neptune | 4.11° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Uranus | 4.18° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Neptune | 4.19° |
| Natal Mars | opposition | Return Jupiter | 4.31° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Saturn | 4.73° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Mars | 5.84° |