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
August 23 to September 22. Mutable earth. Ruled by Mercury. It sets the tone the year is met through.
Creation. Play. Pleasure. Children. The radiance of the self. 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 | 7th house |
| Moon | 9th house |
| Mercury | 7th house |
| Venus | 7th house |
| Mars | 6th house |
| Jupiter | 12th house |
| Saturn | 9th house |
| Uranus | 10th house |
| Neptune | 9th house |
| Pluto | 6th 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 Saturn | trine | Return Mercury | 0.07° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 0.08° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Jupiter | 0.10° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Pluto | 0.25° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Mercury | 0.35° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 0.43° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Pluto | 0.68° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Neptune | 0.73° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Saturn | 0.79° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Neptune | 1.25° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Mars | 1.36° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Pluto | 1.51° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Moon | 1.56° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Sun | 1.60° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mercury | 1.67° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Moon | 1.98° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Neptune | 2.00° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Sun | 2.02° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mercury | 2.10° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Venus | 2.15° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Sun | 2.19° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Pluto | 2.28° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Venus | 2.57° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Pluto | 2.70° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Saturn | 2.76° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Pluto | 2.79° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mars | 3.12° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Uranus | 3.15° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Sun | 3.47° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mars | 3.55° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Moon | 3.58° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Neptune | 3.76° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Mercury | 3.86° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Saturn | 4.04° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Venus | 4.17° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Uranus | 4.42° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Venus | 4.60° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Mars | 5.57° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Moon | 5.77° |