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Author: Rowena Winslow Series: Astrology Made Easy: Solar Returns, Volume 1 Available on: Payhip | Amazon | Etsy The natal chart tells you who you are. The Solar Return tells you what this particular year is about. Volume 1 of the Solar Returns series is the first part of what Winslow describes as the most…
People often come to astrology at a particular moment — when something in their life has shifted, when a year felt inexplicably different from the ones before it, when they sense a pattern they cannot quite name. The Solar Return is the astrological tool that most directly speaks to that experience. Not who you are.…
Every year, on or near your birthday, the Sun returns to the exact degree it occupied at the moment of your birth. The chart cast for that precise moment — your Solar Return chart — maps the year ahead. It describes the dominant themes, the emotional climate, the areas of life that will demand your…
The Saturn Return is one of those astrological events that almost everyone has heard of — and almost no one fully understands until they are in the middle of it. Here is the practical information: when it happens, how long it lasts, and what determines how it shows up in your specific life. What Age…
If the zodiac signs describe who you are, and the planets describe what drives you, then the houses describe where in life all of that plays out. The twelve houses are the most concrete and immediately practical part of the birth chart. They divide the chart into twelve distinct life domains — career, relationships, money,…
Of all the areas Saturn Return touches, relationships tend to produce the most immediate distress — and the most lasting transformation. In my years of reading charts, I have sat with more clients in the middle of a Saturn Return relationship crisis than almost any other presenting issue. They come in with the same basic…
You have your Solar Return chart in front of you. You can see the planets, the houses, the signs. Now what? Solar return chart analysis is not fundamentally different from reading any astrological chart — it uses the same vocabulary of planets, signs, and houses. What changes is the frame: you are reading a year,…
There is a difference between reading a Solar Return chart and interpreting one. Reading is identifying what is there: the Ascendant sign, the Sun’s house, the angular planets, the Moon’s position. These are the building blocks — and knowing them is genuinely useful. If you have worked through the previous articles in this series, you…
Calculating your Solar Return chart is simpler than most people expect — and considerably more precise than simply casting a chart for your birthday. This article walks you through exactly what you need, where to get it, and one feature of the Solar Return calculation that most people don’t know about: the location factor that…
Most people know their Sun sign. Fewer know their Moon sign — and almost everyone who discovers it has the same reaction: this describes me more accurately than my Sun sign ever did. That reaction makes sense. The Sun sign describes who you are becoming, the conscious identity you are developing across a lifetime. The…
