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.
Worth. Resources. What is owned. What is valued. The body as instrument. 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 | 9th house |
| Moon | 3rd house |
| Mercury | 10th house |
| Venus | 10th house |
| Mars | 7th house |
| Jupiter | 8th house |
| Saturn | 3rd house |
| Uranus | 6th house |
| Neptune | 3rd 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 Moon | square | Return Sun | 0.05° |
| Natal Saturn | conjunction | Return Mercury | 0.22° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Sun | 0.27° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Pluto | 0.34° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Neptune | 0.48° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Neptune | 1.27° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Neptune | 1.32° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Pluto | 1.41° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Neptune | 1.54° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.68° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Sun | 1.75° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Moon | 1.90° |
| Natal Mars | opposition | Return Uranus | 2.10° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Mars | 2.18° |
| Natal Neptune | sextile | Return Mercury | 2.27° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Jupiter | 2.81° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Venus | 3.26° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 3.45° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Saturn | 3.58° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Mars | 3.72° |
| Natal Pluto | conjunction | Return Mercury | 3.76° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Uranus | 3.85° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Jupiter | 3.87° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Uranus | 4.12° |