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 mind. The local world. Siblings, neighbors, the school, the daily exchange. 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 | 6th house |
| Mercury | 3rd house |
| Venus | 4th house |
| Mars | 1st house |
| Jupiter | 5th house |
| Saturn | 1st house |
| Uranus | 2nd house |
| Neptune | 1st house |
| Pluto | 11th 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 Jupiter | conjunction | Return Mercury | 0.08° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Saturn | 0.40° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 0.47° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Neptune | 0.64° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Neptune | 0.69° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Moon | 0.73° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 0.79° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Uranus | 0.80° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Moon | 0.84° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Moon | 0.94° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Mercury | 1.41° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.48° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Moon | 1.53° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Uranus | 1.59° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Saturn | 1.59° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Venus | 1.80° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Moon | 2.06° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Moon | 2.12° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Moon | 2.17° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Pluto | 2.23° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Pluto | 3.02° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Saturn | 3.25° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Saturn | 4.05° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Saturn | 4.69° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Venus | 5.63° |