In 4.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 14, 2031.

At age 95.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 14, 2031 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2032.

This return marks a threshold where the Sun completes its orbit and begins its next cycle, a moment when the year ahead asks you to step into a different kind of maturity, one that has been slowly building beneath the surface.

The Rising of this return chart is Scorpio, which gives the whole cycle a penetrating, investigative quality. You will be drawn inward, toward truth-telling and necessary pruning. This is not a year for surfaces. The returning Sun lands in your 10th house, the realm of career, public standing, and the authority you carry in the world. Your work, reputation, and how you’re seen professionally become the central story of these twelve months. The Midheaven flavors this as Virgo: precise, discerning, devoted to craft and service. You’re being called to refine something, to make it real and useful.

The return Moon settles in Cancer, 9th house, your emotional weather is contemplative, seeking meaning and roots. You may feel drawn to study, travel, or a deeper philosophy of life. This Moon softens the Scorpio intensity: you need nourishment, home-truths, connection to what matters most.

What makes this year distinct is the wider sky. Transiting Chiron is nearly exact on your natal Sun while simultaneously supporting your natal Saturn, a rare convergence. Saturn is also pressing and supporting your Sun simultaneously. This is the era’s signature: healing through discipline. Your wounds and your strength are being aligned. The authority you build now won’t be borrowed or performed; it will come from having faced something real in yourself and integrated it.

Meet this cycle by letting your work be the vessel for your growth. The refinement is personal as much as professional.

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, 2031 to August 13, 2032, 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: Cancer · 2nd 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 2nd house is money, values, possessions.
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: Jupiter on the Descendant; Saturn on the Ascendant 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 Around It

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

transiting Chiron square your natal Sun · 0.1° Chiron presses on the old wound so it can teach, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, 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 Chiron sextile your natal Saturn · 0.1° Chiron presses on the old wound so it can teach, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Saturn. Saturn is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time and sits in your 4th house, Home, Family, Roots. Chiron, the one making the contact, is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability.
transiting Saturn square your natal Saturn · 0.5° 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 Saturn. Saturn is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time and sits in your 4th house, Home, Family, Roots. Saturn, the one making the contact, is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time.
transiting Saturn sextile your natal Sun · 0.7° Saturn tightens, tests, and asks what is built to last, offering an opening, if it gets taken, 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. Saturn, the one making the contact, is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time.