In 16.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 14, 2043.

At age 107.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 14, 2043 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2044.

This August marks a threshold: your Sun returns to its natal seat, and with it comes a full turning of the wheel. The year ahead asks you to step into a new relationship with yourself and the world around you.

The Rising of this return chart is Libra, which sets a tone of balance and deliberation across the whole cycle. You’ll move through these twelve months with an eye toward fairness, partnership, and how you fit within the larger social picture. The returning Sun itself lands in your 11th house, friendships, groups, aspirations, meaning the real story of this year lives in connection. This is a cycle where your direction forward is clarified through the people you gather around you, the communities you belong to, the shared visions you’re building. Not in isolation, but in concert.

The return Moon in Sagittarius, 3rd house, colors the emotional texture of this period with restlessness and hunger for understanding. You’ll need to talk things through, learn, perhaps move between conversations and ideas. There’s a philosophical undertone to your feelings now, a need to make sense of things.

What makes this return particularly potent is the era’s backdrop: Chiron is meeting both your natal Chiron and your natal Sun simultaneously, while the North Node presses hard on both your nodal axis. This is a moment of genuine healing and course-correction. You’re being asked to reclaim a wounded part of yourself, something about your core identity, and to consciously realign with your soul’s direction. The groups and friendships you lean into this year aren’t random; they’re part of your becoming.

Listen closely to what your friendships are teaching you about who you’re meant to be.

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 14, 2043 to August 13, 2044, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Taurus 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; Taurus is reliable, patient, practical; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 4th house home, family, roots 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: Sagittarius · 8th 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; Sagittarius is optimistic, honest, adventurous; the 8th house is intimacy, transformation, shared resources.
Midheaven: Capricorn 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; Capricorn is disciplined, responsible, ambitious; 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 4th house (home, family, roots), 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 Chiron sextile your natal Chiron · 0.2° Chiron presses on the old wound so it can teach, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Chiron. Chiron is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability and sits in your 7th house, Partnerships, Marriage, One-on-One Relationships. Chiron, the one making the contact, is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability.
transiting Chiron conjunction your natal Sun · 0.4° 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 Sun. Sun is core identity, will, vitality, the drive to express your essence and sits in your 9th house, Philosophy, Higher Education, Travel. Chiron, the one making the contact, is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability.
transiting North Node ℞ square your natal North Node · 0.5° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your North Node. North Node is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life and sits in your 1st house, Self, Appearance, First Impressions. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.
transiting North Node ℞ square your natal South Node · 0.5° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your South Node. South Node is your accumulated past patterns and talents that feel easy but can keep you stagnant and sits in your 7th house, Partnerships, Marriage, One-on-One Relationships. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.