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
April 20 to May 20. Fixed earth. Ruled by Venus. It sets the tone the year is met through.
The hidden. The unconscious. The retreat. The dissolution. The behind-the-scenes life. 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 | 4th house |
| Moon | 6th house |
| Mercury | 3rd house |
| Venus | 5th house |
| Mars | 3rd house |
| Jupiter | 7th house |
| Saturn | 3rd house |
| Uranus | 5th 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 Neptune | square | Return Pluto | 0.30° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Mercury | 0.31° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Uranus | 0.49° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Mercury | 0.49° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Uranus | 0.66° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Saturn | 0.67° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Mars | 0.85° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Saturn | 0.85° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Moon | 0.89° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Neptune | 0.94° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Mars | 1.03° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mercury | 1.55° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.60° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Sun | 1.65° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Pluto | 1.78° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Saturn | 1.91° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mars | 2.09° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Uranus | 2.11° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Neptune | 2.55° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Neptune | 3.09° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mercury | 3.69° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Neptune | 3.70° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Venus | 4.01° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Saturn | 4.05° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Neptune | 4.15° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 4.15° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mars | 4.23° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Saturn | 4.33° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mercury | 4.69° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Venus | 5.16° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Sun | 5.60° |