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
November 22 to December 21. Mutable fire. Ruled 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 | 5th house |
| Moon | 4th house |
| Mercury | 4th house |
| Venus | 5th house |
| Mars | 4th house |
| Jupiter | 10th house |
| Saturn | 7th house |
| Uranus | 9th house |
| Neptune | 7th house |
| Pluto | 5th 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 | opposition | Return Moon | 0.12° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Sun | 0.16° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Pluto | 0.36° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Mars | 0.63° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Jupiter | 0.75° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Mercury | 0.76° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Uranus | 0.79° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Saturn | 0.96° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.00° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Moon | 1.22° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Uranus | 1.38° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.43° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Venus | 1.71° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Mars | 1.73° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Mercury | 1.86° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Saturn | 1.86° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Mercury | 1.90° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Uranus | 2.03° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Mars | 2.03° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mercury | 2.06° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mars | 2.20° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Venus | 2.81° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Sun | 2.82° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Saturn | 2.96° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Venus | 2.98° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Venus | 3.08° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Neptune | 3.09° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Uranus | 3.13° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Moon | 3.88° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Sun | 3.92° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Moon | 4.05° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Neptune | 4.26° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Neptune | 4.46° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Pluto | 4.89° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Jupiter | 5.43° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Saturn | 5.49° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Venus | 5.64° |