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.
The mind. The local world. Siblings, neighbors, the school, the daily exchange. 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 | 1st house |
| Mercury | 3rd house |
| Venus | 3rd house |
| Mars | 12th house |
| Jupiter | 12th house |
| Saturn | 8th house |
| Uranus | 10th house |
| Neptune | 8th house |
| Pluto | 5th 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 | square | Return Moon | 0.08° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 0.16° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Uranus | 0.57° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Pluto | 0.95° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Venus | 0.96° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Saturn | 1.03° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.06° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Pluto | 1.38° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.56° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.67° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Mercury | 1.69° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Mars | 1.99° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Venus | 2.03° |
| Natal Mercury | square | Return Mars | 2.49° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Jupiter | 2.70° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Neptune | 2.86° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Saturn | 2.90° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Mars | 3.10° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Neptune | 3.47° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Saturn | 3.50° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Mercury | 3.70° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Moon | 3.85° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Jupiter | 3.90° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Sun | 3.92° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Venus | 4.04° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Venus | 4.05° |
| Natal Mercury | square | Return Moon | 4.45° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Neptune | 4.47° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 4.53° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Mercury | 4.77° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Moon | 4.95° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Venus | 5.24° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Uranus | 5.59° |