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
February 19 to March 20. Mutable water. Ruled by Neptune. Co-ruled traditionally by Jupiter. 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 | 3rd house |
| Mercury | 9th house |
| Venus | 10th house |
| Mars | 7th house |
| Jupiter | 8th house |
| Saturn | 4th house |
| Uranus | 6th house |
| Neptune | 4th 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 | square | Return Saturn | 0.15° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Pluto | 0.19° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Neptune | 0.35° |
| Natal Moon | opposition | Return Uranus | 0.87° |
| Natal Venus | conjunction | Return Venus | 0.88° |
| Natal Uranus | conjunction | Return Saturn | 0.97° |
| Natal Moon | trine | Return Neptune | 1.06° |
| Natal Sun | square | Return Uranus | 1.07° |
| Natal Moon | sextile | Return Pluto | 1.22° |
| Natal Pluto | square | Return Venus | 1.24° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Sun | 1.36° |
| Natal Uranus | trine | Return Jupiter | 1.47° |
| Natal Jupiter | conjunction | Return Mars | 1.49° |
| Natal Saturn | square | Return Neptune | 1.63° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Sun | 1.93° |
| Natal Neptune | square | Return Uranus | 2.19° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Neptune | 2.24° |
| Natal Sun | conjunction | Return Mercury | 2.28° |
| Natal Mercury | trine | Return Uranus | 2.28° |
| Natal Mars | square | Return Moon | 2.33° |
| Natal Uranus | square | Return Mars | 2.61° |
| Natal Neptune | conjunction | Return Sun | 3.26° |
| Natal Saturn | trine | Return Mercury | 3.64° |
| Natal Moon | square | Return Mercury | 4.21° |
| Natal Mercury | opposition | Return Moon | 4.21° |
| Natal Neptune | conjunction | Return Mercury | 5.53° |