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
May 21 to June 20. Mutable air. Ruled by Mercury. It sets the tone the year is met through.
The hidden. The unconscious. The retreat. The dissolution. The behind-the-scenes life. 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 | 10th house |
| Moon | 1st house |
| Mercury | 10th house |
| Venus | 11th house |
| Mars | 9th house |
| Jupiter | 11th 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 Neptune | trine | Return Uranus | 0.45° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Neptune | 0.82° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Jupiter | 0.95° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Jupiter | 0.97° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Sun | 1.03° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Saturn | 1.17° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.36° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Uranus | 1.40° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Uranus | 1.47° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mercury | 1.75° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.84° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Moon | 1.85° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Mars | 1.92° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Pluto | 2.36° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Moon | 2.57° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Sun | 2.87° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Neptune | 2.90° |
| Natal Neptune | conjunction | Return Pluto | 3.38° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Neptune | 3.68° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Sun | 3.72° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Saturn | 4.76° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Uranus | 5.19° |
| Natal Saturn | conjunction | Return Mars | 5.64° |