In 5.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2032.

At age 96.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2032 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2033.

This return marks a pivot toward relationship as the central work of your year. The Sun is crossing your Descendant, the threshold between self and other, which means the coming twelve months will ask you to step into partnership territory, whether that’s deepening a bond, negotiating new terms with someone important, or learning what you actually want from another person.

The Rising sign of this return chart is Aquarius, which gives the whole cycle a clear-eyed, experimental tone. You’ll move through this year with some detachment, able to see patterns others miss. But your return Moon in Scorpio sits high in the 10th house, in the realm of work and reputation. This is the emotional undercurrent: intense, private, loyal. There’s a tension here between the cool distance Aquarius offers and the depth Scorpio demands. You may find yourself managing a public face while protecting something vulnerable underneath.

The wider sky intensifies this theme. Neptune is pressing on your natal Moon, softening your emotional boundaries precisely when you’re learning to negotiate closeness with another person. Simultaneously, the North Node is supporting your natal Venus, your values, your capacity to attract and be attracted, while Jupiter amplifies your Lilith, the part of you that refuses to shrink. You’re being called to claim what you want and to trust what you can’t yet see clearly.

This is not a year for certainty. It’s a year for honest conversation with the people who matter most. Listen more than you explain. Your clarity will come through them.

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, 2032 to August 13, 2033, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Virgo 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; Virgo is analytical, helpful, hardworking; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 12th house spirituality, secrets, the subconscious 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: Scorpio · 3rd 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; Scorpio is determined, brave, loyal; the 3rd house is communication, learning, siblings.
Midheaven: Gemini 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; Gemini is adaptable, curious, outgoing; 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 12th house (spirituality, secrets, the subconscious), 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 North Node ℞ sextile your natal Venus · 0.2° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, offering an opening, if it gets taken, 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. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.
transiting Jupiter ℞ square your natal Lilith · 0.2° Jupiter opens things up and asks for more room, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, 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. Jupiter, the one making the contact, is growth, faith, opportunity, the beliefs that broaden your horizons.
transiting Neptune ℞ square your natal Moon · 0.5° Neptune blurs the edges and softens certainty, at friction, the kind that forces a change rather than inviting one, landing on your Moon. Moon is emotional needs, instinctual responses, habits, your feeling of safety and sits in your 8th house, Intimacy, Transformation, Shared Resources. Neptune, the one making the contact, is imagination, ideals, permeability, where reality blurs with vision.
transiting Uranus opposition your natal North Node · 0.5° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, facing it from across the chart, a push-pull that asks for balance, 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.