Category: Solar Return
Every year, on or near your birthday, something precise and measurable happens in the sky: the Sun returns to the exact degree, minute, and second it occupied at the moment you were born. This is not a metaphor or an astrological abstraction. It is an astronomical even— calculable to the minute, repeatable every year, and…
Every year, someone looks at their Solar Return chart and sees a retrograde planet — and immediately assumes the worst. Mercury retrograde in the Solar Return? This whole year is going to be a communication disaster. Venus retrograde? My love life is doomed. Mars retrograde? I won’t be able to get anything done. Here’s what’s…
Most people approach their Solar Return chart the wrong way. They open it up, see ten planets scattered across twelve houses, and try to read everything at once. Within minutes they have a contradictory, overwhelming mess: Jupiter says this is a great year for love, Saturn says slow down, Mars is somewhere stressful, and the…
