Solar return
The chart of your year: the exact instant the Sun returns to its birth position.
Quick answer
Aurapure's solar return finds the exact instant the Sun returns to its natal position in the chosen year and casts the chart for that moment, with Moshier ephemeris. Enter birth date, time, and place: the calculation is free and precise to the minute.
Enter your birth details and year to compute the solar return.
How to calculate a solar return
- 1Enter birth date, time, place, and year. Used to determine the exact natal Sun longitude, timezone, and return year.
- 2Run the calculation. Aurapure finds the instant the Sun returns to that longitude in the chosen year (current year by default).
- 3Read the return chart. The result is a natal-style chart cast for that precise instant: planets, houses, and aspects of the «year chart».
- 4Put it in context. The solar return is read as a metaphor for the year's themes — symbolic tradition, not a certain forecast.
What is a solar return?
It is the chart cast for the exact instant each year around your birthday when the Sun returns to the longitude it had at birth. In symbolic astrology it is read as the «year chart» — a portrait of the period's sky climate.
How do you read it?
Look at the return Ascendant sign, planet positions, and activated houses. Each return has a different accent: some years highlight relationships, others work or inner growth.
Which year is computed?
The current year by default. The return falls near your birthday; choose another year in the form field.
Why use it?
To explore the year's symbolic themes with a precise astronomical calculation. It does not anticipate events: it offers astrological coordinates to compare with lived experience.
The zodiac in Cellarius's atlas
Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica (Amsterdam, 1660), plate II: the band of the zodiac around the Earth in the Ptolemaic system.
Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Frequently asked questions
- What is a solar return?
- It's the chart cast for the exact instant each year when the Sun returns to the longitude it had at your birth. It's read as the chart of the year.
- Which year is computed?
- By default the current year. The return falls near your birthday; choose another year in the form field.
- How precise is it?
- The return instant is found to the minute, with the Sun brought back to the natal longitude within a fraction of an arcminute.