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
May 21 to June 20. Mutable air. Ruled by Mercury. It sets the tone the year is met through.
Daily work. The body's care. Service. The craft of the ordinary day. 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 | 12th house |
| Moon | 3rd house |
| Mercury | 11th house |
| Venus | 10th house |
| Mars | 8th house |
| Jupiter | 8th house |
| Saturn | 4th 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 Sun | square | Return Mars | 0.11° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Neptune | 0.25° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Pluto | 0.58° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Moon | 0.74° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Mercury | 0.95° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Sun | 1.01° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.01° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Saturn | 1.10° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Mars | 1.11° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Uranus | 1.15° |
| Natal Sun | square | Return Jupiter | 1.43° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Venus | 1.59° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Saturn | 1.62° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Moon | 1.73° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Pluto | 1.84° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Pluto | 1.84° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Uranus | 2.41° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Jupiter | 2.43° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Sun | 2.47° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Moon | 2.73° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Neptune | 3.16° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Uranus | 3.30° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Pluto | 3.87° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Sun | 3.91° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Mars | 4.02° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Neptune | 4.16° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Moon | 4.27° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Mercury | 4.45° |
| Natal Mercury | square | Return Jupiter | 4.57° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Sun | 5.17° |
| Natal Venus | opposition | Return Uranus | 5.32° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Moon | 5.64° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 6.00° |