In 19.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2046.

At age 110.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2046 until the next Solar Return on August 14, 2047.

This Solar Return marks a threshold in your relationship to what you own, material, emotional, relational. The returning Sun settles into your 2nd house, the province of value and possession, which means the year ahead will ask you to reckon with what you actually have, what you truly need, and what you’re willing to hold.

The rising sign of this return chart is Cancer, which softens the whole cycle with a protective, inward turn. You’ll approach this year’s questions from the heart first. But the return Moon sits in Capricorn across the 7th house, your partnerships and one-on-one bonds, and that’s austere, clarifying weather. This is not a year of emotional ease in close relationships. It’s a year of honest accounting: who is solid, who can you really depend on, what arrangement actually serves you both. Cancer rising wants to merge; Capricorn Moon wants to know the terms. That tension is the work.

Jupiter on your Midheaven suggests professional or public recognition is possible, even likely. But transiting Saturn is pressing hard on that same career angle, retrograde, asking you to rebuild something there on firmer ground. And transiting Pluto is opposing your natal Venus, your values around love and connection are being fundamentally remade. This is not small.

Yet transiting Uranus aligns with your North Node: liberation is available, but it requires you to release old relational patterns (South Node) that no longer fit. The year asks you to be precise about value, in money, in time, in love. That precision will free you.

Meet this cycle by writing down what you actually want from your partnerships and finances. Clarity is your north star now.

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, 2046 to August 14, 2047, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Capricorn 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; Capricorn is disciplined, responsible, ambitious; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 8th house intimacy, transformation, shared resources 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: Capricorn · 1st 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; Capricorn is disciplined, responsible, ambitious; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
Midheaven: Libra 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; Libra is diplomatic, charming, fair-minded; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.
On the angles: Jupiter on the Imum Coeli 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 8th house (intimacy, transformation, shared resources), 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 trine your natal North Node · 0.4° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, 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. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.
transiting Uranus sextile your natal South Node · 0.4° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, offering an opening, if it gets taken, 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. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.
transiting Pluto ℞ opposition your natal Venus · 0.6° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, facing it from across the chart, a push-pull that asks for balance, landing on your Venus. Venus is affection, aesthetics, values, attraction, how you give and receive harmony and sits in your 9th house, Philosophy, Higher Education, Travel. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.
transiting Saturn ℞ square your natal Midheaven · 0.7° Saturn tightens, tests, and asks what is built to last, 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. Saturn, the one making the contact, is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time.