In 8.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 14, 2035.

At age 99.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 14, 2035 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2036.

This return marks a threshold into a year where your professional reputation and public standing take center stage. The Sun itself is moving into your tenth house, the realm of career, authority, and how the world knows you, which means the cycle ahead is fundamentally about stepping into a more visible role, whether that’s earned recognition, a shift in responsibility, or a clearer sense of your vocational direction.

The Rising of this return chart is Scorpio, which gives the whole year a penetrating, investigative quality. You’ll approach things with more intensity and discernment than usual. You’re not interested in surface answers. The return Moon in Sagittarius, positioned in the second house, brings an optimistic but restless emotional undercurrent around money and values, you may feel pulled to expand your resources or rethink what actually matters to you financially.

What’s striking is the weight on the angles: Venus and the Sun both near your Midheaven, Jupiter on the Descendant, Pluto at the base. This is a year when your reputation shines, when partnerships (professional or otherwise) carry real weight, and when something deep, perhaps a long-held wound or pattern, is being transformed at your foundation.

The wider sky confirms this. Saturn is steadying both your Rising and Descendant, lending you gravitas in how you present and relate. Chiron pressing on your natal Mercury suggests you’re finding words or clarity around something that once hurt. Neptune opposing your Lilith is softening old defiance, asking you to trust differently.

Meet this year by speaking your professional truth clearly, and by letting partnerships, not just ambition, guide your choices.

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, 2035 to August 13, 2036, 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: Sagittarius · 7th 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; Sagittarius is optimistic, honest, adventurous; the 7th house is partnerships, marriage, one-on-one relationships.
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: Pluto 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 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 Neptune ℞ opposition your natal Lilith · 0.1° Neptune blurs the edges and softens certainty, facing it from across the chart, a push-pull that asks for balance, 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. Neptune, the one making the contact, is imagination, ideals, permeability, where reality blurs with vision.
transiting Saturn trine your natal Rising · 0.5° Saturn tightens, tests, and asks what is built to last, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, 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. Saturn, the one making the contact, is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time.
transiting Saturn sextile your natal Descendant · 0.5° Saturn tightens, tests, and asks what is built to last, offering an opening, if it gets taken, 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. Saturn, the one making the contact, is structure, discipline, boundaries, lessons that mature over time.
transiting Chiron square your natal Mercury · 1.0° 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 Mercury. Mercury is thinking, learning, communication style, how you process information 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.