Tag: Solar Return
You can order a personal solar return reading from Rowena Winslow right here on AstroCore — twenty-plus years reading charts, author of the Astrology Made Easy series, including a three-volume set specifically on solar returns. Before you do, here’s what she told us when we asked her how a solar return reading actually works. What…
I have some news I’ve been wanting to share for a while: the complete Astrology Made Easy series is now available in Spanish. All ten volumes — nothing partial, nothing simplified for a new market. If you’ve been waiting to read the series in Spanish, or you know someone who has, it’s all there now.…
Someone just wished you a “Happy Solar Return” — on a card, in a comment, maybe in person — and you’re not entirely sure what you were just wished. The short version: it’s the astrological way of saying happy birthday. The longer version is more interesting, and it points at one of the most useful…
Author: Rowena Winslow Series: Astrology Made Easy: Solar Returns, Volume 3 Available on: Payhip | Amazon | Etsy The first two volumes of this series built the complete planetary foundation of Solar Return interpretation — every personal and social planet through all twelve houses, with aspects, signs, and In Practice cases. Volume 3 completes the…
Author: Rowena Winslow Series: Astrology Made Easy: Solar Returns, Volume 2 Available on: Payhip | Amazon | Etsy Volume 1 of the Solar Returns series covered the Sun, Moon, and Mercury — the planets most immediately tied to the year’s central focus, emotional landscape, and communicative activity. Volume 2 picks up exactly where it left…
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…
Imagine your friend tells you she’s flying to Lisbon for her birthday. Not because she’s always wanted to go (though she has). But because the astrology works out better there. You think: that’s a bit much. Then you find out it actually works — and that astrologers have been doing it for decades. Welcome to…
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,…
