In 6.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2033.

At age 97.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2033 until the next Solar Return on August 14, 2034.

This return marks a turning point in how you speak and think, a fresh cycle of learning, exchange, and the words that move between you and the world. The Sun arrives back at its natal degree in August, and the chart cast for that moment shows you stepping into a year oriented toward connection.

The Rising of this return chart is Gemini, which sets the whole tone: curious, communicative, restless in the best way. Your attention turns outward. The returning Sun lands in the 3rd house, the sphere of speech, study, siblings, neighbors, the immediate circle. This is your year to say what you mean, to ask questions that matter, to learn something that changes how you see. The return Moon in Aries, 11th house, brings emotional intensity to friendships and group belonging. You’ll feel a sharper need for people who match your pace and your ideals; this isn’t a year for passive social arrangements.

The wider sky deepens this picture. Jupiter opposing your natal Venus suggests expansion in how you value and connect, abundance arriving, but asking you to examine what you truly want from relationships. Uranus supporting your natal Venus at the same time says the answer isn’t what it used to be. Saturn’s support to your natal Neptune brings clarity to dreams you’ve held; what seemed vague becomes buildable. The North Node backing your natal Jupiter promises growth through generosity and faith.

This is a year to speak up, to find your people, and to let what you’ve learned reshape what you love. Trust the conversations that feel urgent.

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, 2033 to August 14, 2034, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Scorpio 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; Scorpio is determined, brave, loyal; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 10th house career, reputation, authority 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 · 6th 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 6th house is work, service, health.
Midheaven: Leo 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; Leo is confident, generous, creative; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.
On the angles: Sun 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 10th house (career, reputation, authority), 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 Jupiter ℞ opposition your natal Venus · 0.2° Jupiter opens things up and asks for more room, 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. Jupiter, the one making the contact, is growth, faith, opportunity, the beliefs that broaden your horizons.
transiting North Node ℞ sextile your natal Jupiter · 0.3° North Node pulls toward the growth edge, offering an opening, if it gets taken, 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. North Node, the one making the contact, is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life.
transiting Saturn sextile your natal Neptune · 0.5° Saturn tightens, tests, and asks what is built to last, 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. Saturn, the one making the contact, is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time.
transiting Uranus sextile your natal Venus · 0.6° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, 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. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.