What is a solar return chart?
A solar return chart is cast for the moment the Sun returns to its natal longitude. Electional reads that annual chart with profections, Lord of the Year, angular planets, and birthday-location options.
Annual context
Solar Return
A solar return is one annual chart for the birthday-to-birthday year. Use it for the year's main themes, birthday location choices, and the difference between one annual story and shorter monthly timing.
Credits1 credit for Solar Return; 3 credits for location election.What's in the reading
The page leads with the yearly decision this tool answers. These technique terms stay here for readers who want the method names.
- Annual profection
- A traditional age-based annual chapter. It supplies the year theme and the time-lord planet used as context.
- Retrodiction
- A past-event cross-check. Timeline uses it for life sequencing; Solar Return keeps the focus on one birthday year.
- Precession-corrected
- An advanced tropical return option that adjusts for accumulated precession. The default stays the standard tropical return.
- Return location
- The city used for the birthday chart. Your birth chart itself remains anchored to your birth place.
Year ahead tool
Birthday-to-birthday
year chart
The date is fixed by your birth; the location frames the year. This reads the birthday-to-birthday year chart and keeps your birth chart anchored to your birth place.
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Move sideways only when the job changes: today, a future date, the month ahead, the year ahead, or the full life arc.
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Direct answers for Solar Return.
Solar Return combines the annual return chart and annual profection so the year has a visible chart frame before individual dates are judged.
How does solar return context affect timing?
Solar return and profection context can strengthen or weaken a candidate timing window, but it does not replace the natal chart. In Electional it is a bounded annual layer, not an override.