In 14.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2041.

At age 105.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2041 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2042.

This return marks a threshold where you step fully into a new Uranian chapter, the moment your life’s revolutionary impulse comes of age in a way that demands real, structural change.

The Rising of this return chart is Taurus, which may seem quiet at first glance, but Taurus rising in a year when so much is shifting means you’re being asked to ground your innovations. This is not a year of restlessness; it’s a year of building something that lasts. The returning Sun settles into your 4th house, home, family, roots, the foundation beneath you. The cycle’s weight falls here. You may be reckoning with family patterns, relocating, or fundamentally reimagining what “home” means to you. This is intimate territory, not public.

Yet the Midheaven carries Aquarius, and here the wider sky speaks loudly. Transiting Uranus is meeting your natal Uranus almost exactly, while the North Node aligns with both Uranus and harmonizes with your natal Mercury. This is not coincidence. You’re being called toward a future that breaks from the past, but the 4th house Sun insists you do it from somewhere solid. Perhaps you’re changing your family role, your living situation, or your inner relationship to inheritance and belonging. The return Moon in Pisces, 11th house, adds a tender note: friendships and communities will matter more than usual, offering emotional sustenance as you navigate this shift.

Transiting Chiron meeting your natal Pluto deepens it: old wounds around power and control are healing, making space for genuine transformation.

Meet this year by tending to one root while you reach for the sky.

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, 2041 to August 13, 2042, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Libra 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; Libra is diplomatic, charming, fair-minded; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 11th house friendships, groups, aspirations 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: Pisces · 6th 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; Pisces is empathetic, artistic, compassionate; the 6th house is work, service, health.
Midheaven: Leo 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; Leo is confident, generous, creative; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.

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 11th house (friendships, groups, aspirations), 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 square your natal Uranus · 0.4° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Uranus. Uranus is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits and sits in your 5th house, Creativity, Romance, Children. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.
transiting North Node ℞ conjunction your natal Uranus · 0.5° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, sitting right on top of it, so the effect is direct and hard to miss, landing on your Uranus. Uranus is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits and sits in your 5th house, Creativity, Romance, Children. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.
transiting North Node ℞ trine your natal Mercury · 0.7° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, landing on your Mercury. Mercury is thinking, learning, communication style, how you process information and sits in your 9th house, Philosophy, Higher Education, Travel. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.
transiting Chiron conjunction your natal Pluto · 0.8° Chiron presses on the old wound so it can teach, sitting right on top of it, so the effect is direct and hard to miss, landing on your Pluto. Pluto is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal and sits in your 8th house, Intimacy, Transformation, Shared Resources. Chiron, the one making the contact, is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability.