In 9.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2036.

At age 100.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2036 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2037.

This August marks a turning point in your relational life. The Sun returns to its natal degree and steps directly into your 7th house, the territory of partnership, marriage, and the one-on-one bonds that define us. For the year ahead, your central work is there: in how you show up with another person, in what you’re willing to commit to, in the shape of intimacy itself.

The rising tone of this cycle is Aquarius, detached, principled, future-focused. You’re not entering this year in a sentimental mood. There’s clarity here, even coolness. You’ll want independence woven into whatever partnerships matter to you. This isn’t a year to dissolve into merger; it’s a year to know exactly what you need and to say it plainly.

Your emotional weather, meanwhile, is Taurus in the 4th house, grounded, steady, rooted in home and family. There’s a quiet need for security underneath all that Aquarian logic. You’re building something that lasts. And the Midheaven in Scorpio suggests your vocational or public life carries weight too; what you do in the world matters as backdrop to these intimate negotiations.

Here’s what makes this year singular: Uranus is transiting in exact harmony with both your natal Midheaven and Imum Coeli, your public axis and your private one, simultaneously. Chiron presses on both too. The slow planets are saying the same thing: your foundation and your reputation are both ready to transform. Partnership isn’t separate from your life’s work or your roots. It’s woven through all of it.

Meet this year by naming what stability actually means to you, then let the rest rearrange itself around that truth.

About The Solar Return

Your Solar Return marks the moment the transiting Sun returns to its exact natal position, your astrological birthday. Astrologers cast a fresh chart for that moment, relocated to wherever you'll spend the year ahead, to read the themes of the coming twelve months. Each Solar Return chart functions as a year-in-miniature forecast: a new rising sign, new planetary placements, new aspects, different territory than the year before. Once a year, every year.

The Return Chart, At A Glance

This is the chart of the return itself: the whole sky at the moment your Sun came back to the spot it held at birth. It describes the cycle that opens, not you as a person, and the birth chart underneath it does not change. That cycle runs from August 13, 2036 to August 13, 2037, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Leo Sets the tone of the whole cycle: how this stretch of time tends to go about things. In any chart, Rising is your outward manner and first impression; the mask and lens through which you meet the world; Leo is confident, generous, creative; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 1st house self, appearance, first impressions The part of life this whole cycle works through, where Sun does its work for the next round. In any chart, Sun is core identity, will, vitality, the drive to express your essence; Leo is confident, generous, creative.
Moon: Taurus · 10th house The emotional weather of the cycle: what it will tend to feel like from the inside. In any chart, Moon is emotional needs, instinctual responses, habits, your feeling of safety; Taurus is reliable, patient, practical; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.
Midheaven: Taurus What the cycle pushes forward in public: the part other people will see. In any chart, Midheaven is your public reputation, career calling, and the face you show to authority and the world at large; Taurus is reliable, patient, practical; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.
On the angles: Saturn on the Ascendant The loudest placements in the chart: a body sitting on one of its four corners shapes the cycle more than its position alone would suggest.

How this sits with your own chart. A return chart is laid over a birth chart, never swapped for it. Your Sun is still in Leo, exactly where it was at birth, and that is what makes this a return at all. What is new is the frame around it: cast for this moment, that same Sun falls in the 1st house (self, appearance, first impressions), so that is the part of life this cycle asks about. Everything in your birth chart stays as it is; this chart only says what the cycle ahead does with it.

The Wider Sky Around It

The slow, life-shaping transits active at this return, the backdrop the reading reads against.

transiting Uranus sextile your natal Midheaven · 0.1° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Midheaven. Midheaven is your public reputation, career calling, and the face you show to authority and the world at large and sits in your 10th house, Career, Reputation, Authority. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.
transiting Uranus trine your natal Imum Coeli · 0.1° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, landing on your Imum Coeli. Imum Coeli is your private foundation, ancestral roots, and the innermost sense of where you belong and sits in your 4th house, Home, Family, Roots. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.
transiting Chiron square your natal Midheaven · 0.5° Chiron presses on the old wound so it can teach, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Midheaven. Midheaven is your public reputation, career calling, and the face you show to authority and the world at large and sits in your 10th house, Career, Reputation, Authority. Chiron, the one making the contact, is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability.
transiting Chiron square your natal Imum Coeli · 0.5° Chiron presses on the old wound so it can teach, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Imum Coeli. Imum Coeli is your private foundation, ancestral roots, and the innermost sense of where you belong and sits in your 4th house, Home, Family, Roots. Chiron, the one making the contact, is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability.