In 23.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2050.

At age 114.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2050 until the next Solar Return on August 14, 2051.

This Solar Return marks a threshold in your relationship to what you own, not only money and possessions, but your own worth, your values, and what you’re willing to keep or release. The year ahead asks you to tend to the material and emotional ground beneath you.

The Rising of this return chart is Cancer, which sets a protective, inward-turning tone for the whole cycle. You’ll likely feel called to consolidate, to make things secure, to know what’s yours and why it matters. The returning Sun lands in your 2nd house, the heart of this year’s story: this is fundamentally about resources, self-reliance, and discovering what actually holds value for you, not what you’ve inherited as valuable, but what you choose to keep. The return Moon in Cancer, 1st house, deepens this: your emotional weather will be tender and cautious. You may feel more vulnerable to loss, more protective of boundaries, more aware of your own needs.

Venus anchors the Imum Coeli, the root of the chart, suggesting that love, beauty, and genuine desire are woven into whatever you’re building or protecting this year. The Midheaven in Aries adds a note of courage: publicly, you may need to assert something new about your values or your independence.

The wider sky confirms this isn’t small work. Pluto’s retrograde pressure on your natal Rising and Descendant, exact and relentless, is dissolving old identities, old agreements about who you are in relation to others. Simultaneously, Pluto supports your natal Uranus, and the North Node touches your Neptune: you’re being asked to rebuild yourself on more authentic ground, to trust a vision that’s always been yours.

Move slowly with money and commitments this year. Let yourself feel what needs to change.

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, 2050 to August 14, 2051, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Sagittarius 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; Sagittarius is optimistic, honest, adventurous; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 9th house philosophy, higher education, travel 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: Cancer · 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; Cancer is emotional, caring, intuitive; the 8th house is intimacy, transformation, shared resources.
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: Venus on the Midheaven 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 9th house (philosophy, higher education, travel), 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 Pluto ℞ square your natal Rising · 0.1° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Rising. Rising is your outward manner and first impression; the mask and lens through which you meet the world and sits in your 1st house, Self, Appearance, First Impressions. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.
transiting Pluto ℞ square your natal Descendant · 0.1° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Descendant. Descendant is the qualities you seek and attract in partners; the mirror of your relational self and sits in your 7th house, Partnerships, Marriage, One-on-One Relationships. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.
transiting Pluto ℞ sextile your natal Uranus · 0.4° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Uranus. Uranus is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits and sits in your 5th house, Creativity, Romance, Children. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.
transiting North Node ℞ sextile your natal Neptune · 0.5° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Neptune. Neptune is imagination, ideals, permeability, where reality blurs with vision 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.