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.
Death. Sex. Other people's money. The merging. The transformation. 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 | 8th house |
| Mars | 7th house |
| Jupiter | 7th house |
| Saturn | 1st house |
| Uranus | 3rd house |
| Neptune | 1st house |
| Pluto | 12th 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 Jupiter | conjunction | Return Jupiter | 0.04° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Pluto | 0.20° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Saturn | 0.36° |
| Natal Pluto | trine | Return Saturn | 0.47° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Venus | 0.61° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Mars | 1.11° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mars | 1.15° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Jupiter | 1.34° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Uranus | 1.35° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Sun | 1.38° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Venus | 1.52° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Venus | 1.59° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Saturn | 1.91° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Pluto | 2.11° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Neptune | 2.53° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Sun | 2.71° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Uranus | 3.27° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Mars | 3.46° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Saturn | 3.83° |
| Natal Sun | square | Return Moon | 4.20° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Moon | 4.29° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Pluto | 4.38° |
| Natal Pluto | opposition | Return Pluto | 4.49° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Uranus | 5.53° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Mercury | 5.70° |