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
July 23 to August 22. Fixed fire. Ruled by the Sun. 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 | 10th house |
| Moon | 8th house |
| Mercury | 11th house |
| Venus | 11th house |
| Mars | 8th house |
| Jupiter | 8th house |
| Saturn | 4th 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 Jupiter | opposition | Return Venus | 0.17° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Moon | 0.55° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Neptune | 0.56° |
| Natal Mars | trine | Return Saturn | 0.57° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Mercury | 0.65° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Moon | 0.81° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Sun | 0.84° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Pluto | 0.94° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Jupiter | 1.22° |
| Natal Mercury | sextile | Return Jupiter | 1.48° |
| Natal Sun | opposition | Return Saturn | 1.98° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Venus | 2.28° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Neptune | 2.28° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Mercury | 2.49° |
| Natal Mars | sextile | Return Sun | 2.55° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Mars | 2.65° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Saturn | 2.83° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mercury | 3.11° |
| Natal Uranus | sextile | Return Uranus | 3.28° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Venus | 3.31° |
| Natal Jupiter | square | Return Mars | 3.34° |
| Natal Mars | conjunction | Return Mars | 5.79° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Moon | 5.88° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 5.92° |