Magpie’s Planetary Returns

Magpie stands at the threshold of xem's 47th Mars Return, a moment that arrives every two years to renew the fighting spirit and clarify where drive will concentrate for the season ahead. This one opens in late December, as Magpie turns 84, a Mars return that carries particular weight at this threshold of later life.

Magpie's 85th Venus Return arrives as a doorway into what love and value mean at this threshold of life, a reopening of the heart's priorities after nearly a decade of smaller cycles.

Magpie's 85th Solar Return opens a cycle rooted in consolidation and legacy. At this threshold, the returning Sun settles into the 4th house, the domain of home, family, and the foundations that have held a life together. This is the year when Magpie's inner work becomes visible in the spaces xe inhabits and the…

Magpie stands at the threshold of xem's 85th Mercury Return, a moment when the planet of thought, speech, and connection resets itself for the months ahead. This is not a grand planetary station but a steady turning, four times a year, Mercury comes home to its natal degree, and with it comes a fresh lens for how…

Magpie approaches the third and likely final Saturn Return of xem's life, a profound reckoning at 89, when the planet that measures time and consequence comes home one last time. This is the return that often asks: what remains? What has endured? What must be released?

This is Magpie's fifth nodal return, arriving at ninety-three, a threshold moment in the long rhythm of direction-finding that began at birth. Every eighteen and a half years, the nodes ask: What am I meant to be learning now? What old certainties am I ready to release? This return lands as Magpie enters a season of…

Magpie's ninth Jupiter Return arrives as a threshold into a new season of belonging and purpose. Every twelve years, Jupiter circles back to where it was born, and each return marks a doorway, a time when life reorganizes itself around fresh faith and possibility. At ninety-five, this one asks what Magpie still wishes…

This is Magpie's third Chiron Return, a rare and significant passage. At 101 years old, xe stands at a threshold where the deepest wound and its long apprenticeship in healing integrate into something whole. This is not the first time xe has circled back to Chiron's degree; the pattern itself has become part of xe's…