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.
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 | 8th house |
| Moon | 3rd house |
| Mercury | 8th house |
| Venus | 8th house |
| Mars | 7th house |
| Jupiter | 12th house |
| Saturn | 8th house |
| Uranus | 10th house |
| Neptune | 8th 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 Moon | trine | Return Venus | 0.16° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Pluto | 0.25° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Jupiter | 0.35° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Sun | 0.38° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Sun | 0.54° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Saturn | 0.65° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Jupiter | 0.76° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Jupiter | 1.14° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Neptune | 1.39° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mercury | 1.45° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Mercury | 1.61° |
| Natal Saturn | conjunction | Return Pluto | 1.64° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.79° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mercury | 1.99° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.99° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Saturn | 2.05° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Jupiter | 2.06° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mercury | 2.44° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Mercury | 2.46° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Saturn | 2.53° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Sun | 2.82° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Venus | 3.02° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Neptune | 3.19° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Mars | 3.20° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Venus | 4.41° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 4.43° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Sun | 4.45° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Moon | 4.82° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Moon | 4.98° |
| Natal Venus | opposition | Return Moon | 5.77° |