A past return

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 14, 2006.

At age 70.0.

The cycle it opened ran about 12 months, from August 14, 2006 until the next Solar Return on August 14, 2007.

This return marked a threshold: the Sun coming home to itself, opening a fresh twelve-month cycle when you were already well into adulthood, carrying weight and intention into whatever came next.

The Rising of this return chart was Scorpio, a tone of penetration and privacy, of looking beneath surfaces. You were not entering this year in a light or social mood. The returning Sun landed in your 10th house, the house of career, reputation, and the work you do in the world. This was not a year of retreat. Your professional life, your standing, what you were building or stewarding in public, these became the story’s center. Yet Saturn sat on the Midheaven itself, the very peak of the chart, suggesting that authority came with weight. You were likely carrying real responsibility, or learning its cost.

The return Moon in Aries in the 6th house gave the emotional undercurrent a restless, urgent quality. This was not a calm year internally. Work, service, health, the daily machinery of living, asked for your attention and sometimes your courage. Neptune on the Imum Coeli added a layer of dissolution or confusion at the foundation; something unseen was shifting beneath.

The wider sky held three supporting transits: Jupiter brightening your Mercury spoke of clarity in communication and thought; the North Node harmonizing your Pluto suggested you were moving toward your own power. But Uranus pressed on your natal Jupiter, a disruption of ease, an unsettling of what you’d relied on.

This was likely a year of consolidation through pressure: building real things while the ground shifted. What you learned then about your own resilience probably still steadies you.

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, 2006 to August 14, 2007, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Gemini 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; Gemini is adaptable, curious, outgoing; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 3rd house communication, learning, siblings 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: Aries · 11th 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; Aries is adventurous, energetic, courageous; the 11th house is friendships, groups, aspirations.
Midheaven: Aquarius 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; Aquarius is innovative, independent, humanitarian; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.
On the angles: Saturn 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 3rd house (communication, learning, siblings), 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 Then

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

transiting Pluto ℞ sextile your natal Lilith · 0.2° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Lilith. Lilith is the wild, undomesticated self; where you refuse compromise and reclaim raw instinct and sits in your 11th house, Friendships, Groups, Aspirations. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.
transiting Jupiter sextile your natal Mercury · 0.4° Jupiter opens things up and asks for more room, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Mercury. Mercury is thinking, learning, communication style, how you process information and sits in your 9th house, Philosophy, Higher Education, Travel. Jupiter, the one making the contact, is growth, faith, opportunity, the beliefs that broaden your horizons.
transiting North Node ℞ trine your natal Pluto · 0.6° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, 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. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.
transiting Uranus ℞ square your natal Jupiter · 1.0° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Jupiter. Jupiter is growth, faith, opportunity, the beliefs that broaden your horizons 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.