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.
The body. The mask. The threshold. The way you arrive. 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 | 2nd house |
| Moon | 9th house |
| Mercury | 1st house |
| Venus | 2nd house |
| Mars | 2nd house |
| Jupiter | 8th house |
| Saturn | 3rd house |
| Uranus | 6th house |
| Neptune | 4th house |
| Pluto | 2nd 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 | conjunction | Return Venus | 0.20° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Neptune | 0.23° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Mars | 0.35° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mars | 0.48° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Venus | 0.63° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Sun | 0.84° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Saturn | 1.45° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Uranus | 1.58° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Jupiter | 1.82° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Uranus | 2.04° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Jupiter | 2.42° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Uranus | 2.65° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Saturn | 2.78° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Sun | 2.78° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Venus | 2.99° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Jupiter | 3.26° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Mars | 3.26° |
| Natal Neptune | conjunction | Return Moon | 3.29° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Pluto | 3.55° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mercury | 4.07° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Uranus | 4.24° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Sun | 4.40° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Neptune | 4.47° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Mars | 4.59° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Venus | 4.60° |
| Natal Pluto | conjunction | Return Jupiter | 4.65° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Venus | 4.87° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mars | 4.88° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 5.07° |