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.
Daily work. The body's care. Service. The craft of the ordinary day. 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 | 5th house |
| Mercury | 9th 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 Saturn | square | Return Neptune | 0.18° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Mars | 0.19° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Neptune | 0.35° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Sun | 0.37° |
| Natal Venus | square | Return Pluto | 0.40° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Saturn | 0.54° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 0.71° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.03° |
| Natal Jupiter | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.13° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mars | 1.13° |
| Natal Sun | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.19° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Uranus | 1.40° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.44° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Moon | 1.52° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.56° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.60° |
| Natal Mercury | square | Return Mars | 1.66° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Neptune | 2.02° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Moon | 2.09° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 2.63° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Pluto | 2.92° |
| Natal Pluto | conjunction | Return Mercury | 2.94° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Neptune | 2.98° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Jupiter | 3.06° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Saturn | 3.07° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Uranus | 3.07° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Moon | 3.25° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Mercury | 3.28° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Neptune | 3.35° |
| Natal Sun | trine | Return Saturn | 3.44° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Mars | 3.50° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Venus | 3.73° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Jupiter | 3.95° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Sun | 4.11° |
| Natal Sun | square | Return Mars | 4.29° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Jupiter | 4.90° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Saturn | 4.93° |
| Natal Saturn | opposition | Return Moon | 5.63° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Moon | 5.91° |