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
January 20 to February 18. Fixed air. Ruled by Uranus. Co-ruled traditionally by Saturn. It sets the tone the year is met through.
Partnership. The other. Marriage. Open enemies. The mirror. 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 | 9th house |
| Mercury | 10th house |
| Venus | 11th house |
| Mars | 8th house |
| Jupiter | 9th house |
| Saturn | 5th house |
| Uranus | 7th house |
| Neptune | 5th house |
| Pluto | 3rd 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 Mercury | 0.05° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Moon | 0.19° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Venus | 0.28° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Uranus | 0.28° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Pluto | 0.51° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Mars | 0.54° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Neptune | 0.61° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Sun | 1.91° |
| Natal Saturn | conjunction | Return Neptune | 1.92° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Moon | 2.01° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Pluto | 2.02° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Venus | 2.12° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Pluto | 2.33° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Moon | 2.34° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Neptune | 2.43° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Mars | 2.45° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Moon | 2.52° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Moon | 2.59° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Venus | 2.70° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Uranus | 2.81° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Pluto | 2.84° |
| Natal Venus | opposition | Return Pluto | 2.91° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Neptune | 2.94° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Neptune | 3.01° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Venus | 3.16° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Mercury | 3.39° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Saturn | 3.94° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Neptune | 4.35° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Moon | 4.43° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Uranus | 4.63° |
| Natal Mars | opposition | Return Pluto | 4.76° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Neptune | 4.85° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Uranus | 5.14° |