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
December 22 to January 19. Cardinal earth. Ruled by Saturn. It sets the tone the year is met through.
The body. The mask. The threshold. The way you arrive. 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 | 8th house |
| Moon | 3rd house |
| Mercury | 7th house |
| Venus | 8th house |
| Mars | 8th house |
| Jupiter | 2nd house |
| Saturn | 10th house |
| Uranus | 12th house |
| Neptune | 11th house |
| Pluto | 9th 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 | conjunction | Return Venus | 0.09° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Mercury | 0.44° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Venus | 0.74° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mars | 0.79° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Neptune | 0.80° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Sun | 0.83° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mercury | 1.02° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Saturn | 1.33° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Pluto | 1.41° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Mars | 1.62° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Neptune | 1.76° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.89° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Pluto | 2.50° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Uranus | 2.57° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Moon | 3.00° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Moon | 3.27° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Pluto | 3.51° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Uranus | 3.65° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Saturn | 3.89° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Venus | 4.21° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Sun | 4.30° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Jupiter | 4.68° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Mercury | 4.84° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Saturn | 4.94° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Mars | 5.09° |