#solar return guide

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SOLAR RETURN CHART NOTES

• I note that although it’s possible to read the solar return chart alone, it’s extremely important to study the SR in comparison to the natal, first to delimit the possible influences (because if you just look at the solar return chart alone, you will have many aspects, then it will be confusing); second, because influences tend to materialize in relation to our natal personality.
• The isolated solar return chart can be used to see positions such as the Ascendant, the house cusps.

But if you want to know the placements of the planets in the houses, you should look at the Solar Return chart + Natal chart.

I’ll show you this (using astro.com)

• In the image we can see three options for solar return:

1) Solar Return Chart

2) Natal + Solar Return chart

3) Natal + Solar Return chart, with houses

• What I mean is that it is much more interesting to use options 2) or 3), because they tend to show the interaction between the natal chart and the solar return, which even makes more sense because we want to know how our natal personality will be affected during the year, right? How we will be put to the test during the year.

To see planets in the houses, it is good to choose option 3) Natal + Solar Return chart, with houses. I chose and this is the chart that appears:

• We can see that the person will have Mercury, Venus, Sun and Pluto impacting the natal 8th house - that is, here we have a stellium in the 8th house, Saturn and Jupiter impacting the natal 9th ​​house, among other things. This person’s Ascendant will be in Aries, and all the positions of the cusps can also be seen through this chart.

• The same goes for the aspects: it is more interesting to look at the aspects formed between the planets in the SOLAR RETURN CHART and the NATAL CHART. And not of the planets of the solar return chart alone, among themselves. This may not be very helpful in terms of understanding the manifestation of the year.

To see the aspects between the Natal chart + Solar Return chart, I selected option 2) on astro.com. I selected “additional tables” and opened a PDF. On the last page of it I find the table of aspects.

• In this table, for example, I can see an exact aspect between the two Saturns. Saturn (solar) sextile Saturn (natal). I also see solar Venus conjunct natal Mercury, in addition to other aspects.

• Remember: orbit is very important. Aspects with an orbit higher than 3 are not considered for the purpose of influencing the year. If an aspect is at 0°, it is exact. If it’s 1st, 2nd, 3rd degrees, we can still consider it. But aspects with very large orbits (4°, 5°) are not so relevant at the moment.

• Examples: natal Mercury square solar ASC (0°47s - exact aspect, we consider it);solar Neptune conj natal Neptune (Aspect of 4°25s). We do not consider it.

• Paty, is there another way to see this interaction between the Solar Return chart and the Natal chart? Astro.com is kind of difficult for me. Yes, there is! astro-seek.com can help with this. Click here and enter your birth data.

Example of how to visualize everything I said on astro-seek (taking another person as an example):

This chart shows the Solar Return placements in orange, and the natal placements in gray. We can see this person’s Ascendant in the Solar Return chart, which will be in Capricorn.

• Further down is the interesting part about the SR planets in natal houses and the aspects between the two charts (in green). Note that this site only shows aspects with an orbit smaller than 3 degrees, it already does the work of selecting those that are most relevant. And the exact aspects, which tend to be the strongest, are in gray.

• We can see that, regarding the houses, this person will be with the 10th house (Midheaven) very activated (Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune in 10th house). It will also have a lot of influence in the 9th house. To understand the meaning of planets in the houses, you can search in my blog, I wrote some here on tumblr.

• Sun conj Sun aspect will always appear at 0°00’ in SR charts, as it is exactly the Sun’s return to its natal position. therefore, the Sun of that year is conjunct (united) to the same degree as the Sun of the natal chart.