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
March 21 to April 19. Cardinal fire. Ruled by Mars. It sets the tone the year is met through.
The public. The career. The legacy. The mountain. 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 | 1st house |
| Moon | 12th house |
| Mercury | 12th house |
| Venus | 1st house |
| Mars | 12th house |
| Jupiter | 6th house |
| Saturn | 2nd house |
| Uranus | 4th house |
| Neptune | 2nd house |
| Pluto | 1st 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 Uranus | sextile | Return Mars | 0.11° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Sun | 0.26° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Saturn | 0.35° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Mercury | 0.45° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Saturn | 0.62° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mars | 0.63° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Uranus | 0.69° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mercury | 0.70° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Uranus | 0.95° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Mercury | 1.22° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Mars | 1.78° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Mercury | 1.78° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mars | 1.79° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Moon | 1.79° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Sun | 1.90° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mars | 2.05° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Venus | 2.15° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Venus | 2.41° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 2.42° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Saturn | 2.51° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Jupiter | 2.52° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Neptune | 2.85° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Uranus | 2.85° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Saturn | 3.03° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mercury | 3.11° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Mars | 3.11° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Neptune | 3.12° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Uranus | 3.37° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mercury | 3.38° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Sun | 3.57° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Jupiter | 3.84° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Jupiter | 3.91° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Uranus | 4.19° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Uranus | 4.52° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Venus | 4.83° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Sun | 4.89° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Jupiter | 4.99° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Venus | 5.98° |