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
October 23 to November 21. Fixed water. Ruled by Pluto. Co-ruled traditionally by Mars. 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 | 1st house |
| Moon | 6th house |
| Mercury | 12th house |
| Venus | 2nd house |
| Mars | 12th house |
| Jupiter | 4th house |
| Saturn | 12th house |
| Uranus | 1st house |
| Neptune | 12th house |
| Pluto | 10th 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 Venus | opposition | Return Moon | 0.04° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Moon | 0.13° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Venus | 0.21° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Saturn | 0.27° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Pluto | 0.86° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Neptune | 1.47° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Neptune | 1.54° |
| Natal Sun | square | Return Pluto | 2.05° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Neptune | 2.33° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Mercury | 2.72° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Sun | 2.85° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Sun | 3.25° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Pluto | 3.56° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Saturn | 4.09° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Saturn | 4.15° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Jupiter | 4.22° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Jupiter | 4.40° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Uranus | 4.53° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Venus | 4.64° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Mars | 4.87° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Mercury | 5.08° |