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
January 20 to February 18. Fixed air. Ruled by Uranus. Co-ruled traditionally by Saturn. It sets the tone the year is met through.
Creation. Play. Pleasure. Children. The radiance of the self. 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 | 8th house |
| Moon | 9th house |
| Mercury | 9th house |
| Venus | 9th house |
| Mars | 7th house |
| Jupiter | 9th house |
| Saturn | 6th house |
| Uranus | 8th house |
| Neptune | 5th house |
| Pluto | 3rd 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 Uranus | square | Return Moon | 0.03° |
| Natal Pluto | sextile | Return Jupiter | 0.04° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Pluto | 0.14° |
| Natal Venus | trine | Return Pluto | 0.37° |
| Natal Moon | conjunction | Return Neptune | 1.00° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Neptune | 1.23° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Jupiter | 1.63° |
| Natal Neptune | opposition | Return Uranus | 1.85° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Sun | 1.99° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Venus | 2.05° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Venus | 2.17° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Uranus | 2.37° |
| Natal Venus | sextile | Return Venus | 2.40° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Mars | 2.45° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Uranus | 2.60° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Jupiter | 2.73° |
| Natal Saturn | conjunction | Return Uranus | 3.15° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Neptune | 3.22° |
| Natal Saturn | sextile | Return Venus | 3.34° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Saturn | 3.95° |
| Natal Neptune | trine | Return Jupiter | 4.03° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Moon | 4.17° |
| Natal Jupiter | opposition | Return Uranus | 4.24° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Pluto | 4.28° |
| Natal Jupiter | trine | Return Venus | 4.44° |
| Natal Uranus | opposition | Return Neptune | 5.14° |
| Natal Mercury | conjunction | Return Sun | 5.62° |