JOURNEYS YEARLY SOLAR RETURN REPORT
Once each year, the Sun returns to the exact position that it held at the time of your birth. This report outlines the astrological influences on the year ahead for the positions of the planets at the precise time of your annual solar return. The report delineates the influence of the Ascendant, Midheaven, Sun, Moon, and each of the nine planets as they interact with each other and with the Houses of the horoscope. Because there is such a wealth of information, you may find it helpful to orient yourself by first reading the following three sections in their entirety (including their subsections):
§2 – The Solar Return Sun: The Central Focus of the Year.
§3 – The Solar Return Ascendant: Personal Themes for the Year.
§15 – Connections between Planets and House Cusps: Key Events of the Coming Year.
The report is based on your natal and solar return charts cast for the following data:
Meryl Streep
Wednesday, June 22, 1949 8:05:00 AM
Summit, New Jersey
Time Zone: 04:00 (EDT)
Longitude: 074° W 21′ 36″
Latitude: 40° N 44′ 29″
Streep, Meryl Rtn for 6/22/2027
Tuesday, June 22, 2027 1:13:28 AM
Solar Return, 0° Separation
Pasadena, California
Time Zone: 07:00 (PDT)
Longitude: 118° W 08′ 37″
Latitude: 34° N 08′ 52″
Table of Contents
Natal and Return Data Used in this Report
§1.0 – Introductory Comments: What is a Solar Return?
§2.0 – The Solar Return Sun: The Central Focus of the Year
§2.1 – The House Occupied by the Sun: Major Issues of the Year
§2.2 – The Sun’s Aspects in the Solar Return Chart
§3.0 – The Solar Return Ascendant: Personal Themes for the Year
§3.1 – The Return House Containing the Planet Ruling the Return Ascendant
§3.2 – The Natal House Highlighted by the Solar Return Ascendant
§3.3 – Aspects of the Ascendant in the Solar Return Chart
§3.4 – Planets Rising in the 1st House of the Solar Return Chart
§4.0 – The Solar Return Midheaven: Worldly Status, Career, and Public Activity
§4.1 – The Return House Containing the Planet Ruling the Return Midheaven
§4.2 – The Natal House Highlighted by the Solar Return Midheaven
§4.3 – Aspects of the Midheaven in the Solar Return Chart
§4.4 – Planets in the 10th House of the Solar Return Chart
§5.0 – The Solar Return Moon: Your Emotional Life
§5.1 – Aspects of the Moon in the Solar Return Chart
§6.0 – Mercury: Communication, Learning, Short Trips
§6.1 – Aspects of Mercury in the Solar Return Chart
§7.0 – Venus: Love, Money, Values, Relationships
§7.1 – Aspects of Venus in the Solar Return Chart
§8.0 – Mars: Initiative, Leadership, Drive
§8.1 – Aspects of Mars in the Solar Return Chart
§9.0 – Jupiter: Opportunities for Growth and Expansion
§10.0 – Saturn: Duty, Responsibility, Important Lessons, Hardship
§10.1 – Aspects of Saturn in the Solar Return Chart
§11.0 – Uranus: Novelty, Originality, Disruption
§11.1 – Aspects of Uranus in the Solar Return Chart
§12.0 – Neptune: Spirituality, Creativity, Self-Deception, Confusion
§12.1 – Aspects of Neptune in the Solar Return Chart
§13.0 – Pluto: Power, Control, Intense Emotional Experience, Transformation
§13.1 – Aspects of Pluto in the Solar Return Chart
§14.0 – The Solar Return Part of Fortune
§15.0 – Connections between Planets and House Cusps
§15.1 – Solar Return Planets with Return House Cusps
§15.2 – Solar Return Positions with Natal House Cusps
§15.3 – Natal Positions with Solar Return House Cusps
§16.0 – Transiting Sun Aspects to the Solar Return (Optional)
§1 – Introductory Comments: What is a Solar Return?
Introduction
You have certainly heard the expression “Many happy returns!” – a reference to the annual cycle that begins at your date of birth. The astrological Solar Return is a chart cast for the moment when the Sun returns to the exact position it held in your Natal horoscope. Each year the Solar Return marks the start of your personal New Year, and astrologers look to the Solar Return horoscope to see what events and issues await you in the year ahead.
Astrologers have proposed many methods for interpreting the Solar Return chart. This report follows the method of Alexandre Volguine (1903-1976), a French astrologer who, in 1937, first published his 15 years of research on Returns. Until his death in 1976, Volguine continued to update his study of Returns in subsequent editions of his classic text, “LA TECHNIQUE DES REVOLUTIONS SOLAIRES”. For those interested in the astrological theory, the method of Volguine is outlined in the appendix to this report.
In accord with Volguine’s method, this report is based on a Return chart cast for your location (which may be different from your birth place) when the Sun returns to its position in your Natal chart. Because we insert an extra day into the calendar every four years during the leap year, your Solar Return may occur either on, or a day before or after, your calendar birthday.
If you do not know your exact time of birth, you can still do a general Return chart by using as your presumed “birth time” the exact moment of sunrise on your birth date. The Solar Return chart calculated from a sunrise birth chart provides a generally accurate astrological forecast for the year ahead; but, if possible, use your actual time of birth to get the most accurate forecast.
According to the astrological theory of Solar Returns, the Natal chart represents a basic blueprint of the individual (similar to the DNA within the nucleus of the cell) and the Return chart reveals the annual renewal or reactivation of the Natal chart as measured against both the ongoing movement of the planets and the newly generated set of House cusps at the time the individual’s Natal Sun is “reborn” at the annual (SR) birthday. A key feature of Return chart interpretation involves studying the relationship between the annual Return Houses and the birth chart Houses.
Beginning with the next section, this report will review and interpret the major factors identified by Volguine for identifying the themes and events that will dominate your life during the coming year. The current Solar Return chart actually spans a period of about a year and a half because its influence is felt from three months before the current birthday until three months after next year’s birthday. This three-month transitional overlap between subsequent Returns represents the period when the themes of one year gradually give way to those of the next.
A note on stressful aspects:
In some delineations you will read that an adverse event could occur if the planet being discussed forms discordant aspects in the chart. The harsh aspects are the semi-square (45 degrees), the square (90 degrees), the sesqui-square (135 degrees), the inconjunct (150 degrees), and the opposition (180 degrees). In addition, the conjunction (joining together) of certain pairs of planets is intrinsically difficult because of the conflicting nature of the planets involved. To determine whether a stressful aspect is in effect, you may need to refer to the section where the aspects formed by the planet were first discussed in the report.
Into every life a little rain must fall. Do not be alarmed if negative predictions show up in various sections of this report. Stressful events often hover as potentials in the background but never materialize. The repetition of a trend in several parts of the horoscope chart is the key to accurate prediction in astrology. In general, adverse events occur only when many aspects or configurations repeatedly point toward their manifestation. If a stressful event is mentioned but once or twice, it is unlikely to manifest. In any case, forewarned is forearmed.
On Aspect Strengths: Next to the aspects you will often find a listing of the “strength” of the aspect. The number you see is based on how close the aspect is to being exact. The higher the number, the more exact the aspect. The aspects range in strength from a low of about 0 to 1, to a high of about 8. Sometimes the strength goes up to 12, and in these rare cases, the aspect can be considered very strong. Theoretically, the very close aspects are more likely to manifest in your life.
A note on the date of the Solar Return: A solar return chart is a chart erected for the time that the transiting Sun returns to the position of the natal Sun. This happens once a year and occurs sometimes within 2-3 days of your birth date. The time and date of the Solar Return are not expected to be exactly the same as your birthdate.
Astrological Houses in the Return Chart
If you are not familiar with astrology, it will help to know a little about the astrological Houses as you read this report. You probably know that there are 12 signs of the zodiac. In a similar way, astrologers divide the horoscope wheel into 12 “Houses,” which look like a pie cut into 12 pieces. Each House represents a particular area of life. The 1st House starts at the Ascendant, which is the point where the zodiac circle in the heavens crosses the horizon in the east. By convention the Ascendant lies at the “9 o’clock” point on the circle. The remaining Houses follow the 1st House in a counterclockwise direction around the wheel so that the 10th House, which symbolizes your career and standing in the world, lies at the very top of the chart. The entry point into each House is called its cusp. Below is a list of the twelve Houses and some of their key meanings for reference as you read this report.
1st House: your body, personality, personal initiatives, life force.
2nd House: money, income, possessions, values.
3rd House: communication, analytical thinking, writing, local travel, siblings, neighbors.
4th House: home, family, parents, past conditioning, final endings.
5th House: fun, romance, recreation, vacations, children, sports, gambling, creative self-expression.
6th House: service, health concerns, daily grind, subordinates, tenants, pets.
7th House: significant others, consultants, partnerships, contracts, lawsuits, open enemies, the public.
8th House: death, sex, taxes, joint finances, surgery, investigation, transformation, occult studies.
9th House: higher education, long-distance travel, religion, philosophy, the law, foreign interests, publishing, broadcasting.
10th House: career, worldly status, honors, public standing, reputation authority, bosses, parental figures.
11th House: friends, hopes & wishes, group involvements.
12th House: solitude, imaginative endeavors, confinement, hospitalization, spiritual pursuits, loss of freedom, secret enemies, self-undoing.
§2.0 – The Solar Return Sun: The Central Focus of the Year
General Significance of the Sun
The Sun, ruler of Leo, is the most important “planet” in the Return. The primal energy of the Sun makes possible our life on earth. The Sun enlivens, asserts, illuminates, vitalizes, promotes, fathers, energizes, individualizes, elevates, and makes conscious. Astrological aspects involving the Sun show how we achieve (or fail to achieve) honor, status, recognition, achievement, and individuation – how we shine, create, and make our mark on the world. People signified by the Sun include fathers, husbands, mature men, bosses, authority figures, and people of influence. In health matters, the Sun symbolizes the heart and the spine.
The Return placement and aspects of the Sun may involve us either personally through health matters and life circumstances governed by the Sun, or indirectly through people symbolized by the Sun. We will next look at the zodiacal sign and House positions of the Sun in the Solar Return chart.
Return Sun in Cancer
The Return Sun occupies the exact location in the same sign as the Sun in your birth chart. Having the Sun in Cancer generally makes you sensitive, imaginative, shrewd, protective, nurturing, empathic, tenacious, home oriented, security oriented, and often musically inclined. Your faults may include being too acquisitive, touchy, unforgiving, and perhaps overly sentimental. You tend to worry and may at times use alcohol a bit much.
Having considered the sign containing the Sun, we now turn to the Sun’s Return House position, which highlights the central themes of the year ahead.
§2.1 – The House Occupied by the Sun: Major Issues of the Year
Return Sun in the Return 3rd House
The Sun in your Return 3rd House emphasizes intellectual interests, studies, correspondence, communications, the exchange of ideas; and your dealings with siblings, neighbors, and kin. Your mind is full of creative thoughts pushing for expression. The Sun here enlivens and quickens any plans you have regarding selling, publicizing, or marketing your ideas. You are likely to be on the go, attending meetings, making visits, taking classes, using your computer, adding to your knowledge, and being actively involved in your community. You might travel extensively or purchase a new vehicle. If your work involves public speaking or writing, you can be extremely productive. Communicating with others now takes center stage.
§2.2 – The Sun’s Aspects in the Solar Return Chart
Return Sun conjunct Return Mercury (Strength: 9.17) – Aspect perfects on 6/16/2028.
The Sun conjunct return Mercury indicates a busy year with lots of short trips, phone calls, messages, visits, errands, and moving about. There is a strong emphasis on communication, writing, speaking, learning, teaching, commerce, sales, transport, local travel, detailed planning, and contacts in the community. Often, in such a year, you receive news that opens doors and that has a profound impact on your life. Mercury represents young people who may play a significant role in your life at this time. This is a good year to take lessons or to learn a new skill. You are able to get your ideas across and communicate productively with others.
Matters related to the Return House position of Mercury and those Houses with Gemini or Virgo on their cusps will be especially highlighted during the year.
Return Sun square Return Neptune (Strength: 0.20)
This can be a year of artistic, musical, poetic, or religious inspiration. Neptune heightens your intuitive and imaginative creativity. Glamour, glitz, and illusion may become appealing. Spiritual experiences could involve you in an increased awareness of hidden dimensions of reality. You may need to reconsider your pursuit of a cherished dream or ideal. You are more idealistic than usual this year, which can cause a few problems if you‘re not careful. Some confusion about where you are headed in life is quite likely. A noncommittal attitude in your personal life could leave people in your life feeling frustrated with you as you attempt to find yourself. During this time, you may be unsure where to direct your willpower. You could be undergoing confusion about what you want from life, where you are headed, and how to go about satisfying your ego. There is a reason behind this “identity crisis”–you are learning to let go of ego attachments. Your self-image is being re-worked, and you are becoming more sensitive to a greater, perhaps more spiritual, sense of purpose. Events may occur that dissolve the boundaries of your ego and make you more cognizant of the universality of human experience. You may engage in activities that selflessly assist others or promote the common good. Neptune is a slow-moving planet and this influence may be felt for several years.
This stressful Sun/Neptune aspect warns that the self-sacrifice of Neptune could turn into victimization, paranoia, martyrdom, or some form of self-harm in extreme cases. In very rare cases, you, or someone close to you, may entertain thoughts of suicide. You would be wise to shore up your mental health and avoid acting as your own worst enemy. You may confront issues involving escapism, confusion, self-deception, hopelessness, or loss of touch with reality. You could be prone to an unrealistically romantic or secretive relationship, possibly with someone engaged in drug or alcohol abuse, illicit behavior, con games, or the like. Be sure to stay attuned to your own inner psychological states and motivations.
If other factors suggest health problems, this aspect could signify mysterious or difficult-to-diagnose ailments, either physical or emotional, affecting you. Be sure to see a doctor if you develop symptoms that are confusing or atypical. Be honest in your dealings with others because deceptive or illicit behavior can lead to self-undoing. On occasion, grief, loss, hospitalization, or confinement may be indicated. More probable, however, is some confusion in terms of the direction your life is headed. You may have experiences that cause you to question what it is you are doing and where you are going. This influence suggests that you need a creative outlet for your imagination. Your hunches may not be correct, as they can be too easily influenced by fears, wishes, or hopes.
§3.0 – The Solar Return Ascendant: Personal Themes for the Year
The Ascendant-Descendant or East-West Axis in the SR chart
The East-West Axis of the astrological map represents the Celestial Horizon. The Ascendant (in the East) signifies the filter through which you view the world and the manner in which you project your personality toward others. It also reflects your physical body and your personal initiatives. The Descendant (in the West) symbolizes your partnerships, close relationships, and the way you get along with other people.
Planets that form close aspects with the East-West Axis of the Return chart will color your personality style, personal initiatives, and manner of relating. The degree of the zodiac rising in the East (the Ascendant) varies with your location on earth at the time of your Solar Return. If the Return Ascendant receives particularly stressful aspects, some astrologers advise their clients to travel to a location that will minimize or negate those aspects on the day of their Solar Return. In the following section we consider the influence of the horizon (Ascendant-Descendant) axis in the year ahead.
Return Ascendant in Aries
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Aries rising in your Return chart heralds a year when you can take the initiative to start new projects and head out in new directions. With enhanced self-confidence and a pioneering spirit, you seek opportunities and accept new challenges. You may assume a position of leadership or authority in which you direct others toward a goal. You feel personally more energetic, enthusiastic, youthful, courageous, and assertive. Physical activity or regular exercise may play a larger role in your life. Because the Ascendant signifies your body, check to see whether the Ascendant itself or the Ascendant’s ruler Mars forms stressful aspects. If so, you could encounter health problems during the year.
The Houses of your Natal chart with Aries on the cusp as well as the House of your Return chart that contains Mars, the ruler of Aries, indicate areas of your life that will be in high focus during the coming year. Planets that form close aspects to Mars in the Return chart indicate the types of people and events involved.
Because the planet Mars rules the sign Aries, Mars is the ruler of the Ascendant in this year’s Return chart.
§3.1 – The SR House Containing the Planet Ruling the SR Ascendant
Return Mars in the Return 6th House
Taking action regarding health, daily work, and subordinates
Mars, the action planet, shows where you direct your energy. In the 6th House Mars directs your attention toward health, service, co-workers, detailed work, and your daily grind. This would be an excellent year to schedule a complete medical examination. You may wish to undertake a program of diet and exercise to improve your physical well-being. You will probably be fairly busy on the job, and you should be able to accomplish a great deal at work. Use the energy of Mars to plow through the mountain of details you must deal with daily. Rendering some type of service to others can be rewarding, but be careful not to make job-related changes on impulse.
There is a risk of illness, injury, overwork, burnout, or problems with pets and small animals. Colleagues on the job may be pushy, argumentative, or outspoken. Work-related duties could become frustrating and annoying. Service-related jobs may become problematic.
§3.2 – The Natal House Highlighted by the Solar Return Ascendant
Return Ascendant in the Natal 9th House
The Natal House placement of the Return Ascendant shows where you are most likely to take personal action during the coming year. Your dominant interests and activities will center on 9th House issues such as religious and philosophical concerns, ethical matters, higher education, and legal concerns. You might become actively involved in publishing, broadcasting, forecasting, flying, long-distance travel, and dealings with foreigners. Events at a distance could significantly impact your life.
The Return Ascendant-Descendant axis also highlights 3rd House issues such as visits, trips, mental work, studies, communication, news, announcements, dealings with siblings and neighbors, and relationships in your immediate environment. You will be frequently on the go, perhaps attending schools or going to meetings and conferences. Writing, editing, teaching, translating, or various types of literary work may occupy your time.
§3.3 – Aspects involving the Ascendant in the Solar Return Chart
Return Ascendant conjunct Return Neptune (Strength: 7.82)
Neptune conjunct the Return Ascendant acts to dissolve past attitudes toward appearance, physical body, personal initiative, and sense of self. A person or situation that has been crucial to your sense of identity may pass from your life at this time. You would be wise to schedule a complete physical this year because chronic, occult, mysterious, or allergic health conditions could come to light. Be cautious with the use of drugs or alcohol. On occasion, a period of grief or hospitalization may be indicated.
Because the Return Ascendant shows where you take personal action during the year, the House(s) of the Return and Natal charts with Pisces on the cusp will be especially significant during this Return year.
Return Ascendant sextile Return Uranus (Strength: 2.76)
Uranus, the Great Awakener, represents novelty, originality, disruption, nonconformity, independence, sudden insight, and electrifying change. With Uranus beneficially aspecting your Ascendant, you may experience abrupt changes and pleasant surprises that affect your personal projects and life circumstances. You might also decide to do something new and different about your appearance and manner of presenting yourself to the world.
Return Ascendant sextile Return Pluto (Strength: 2.25)
With Pluto favorably aspecting the Ascendant, you can wield tremendous positive influence over both your environment and the people in your life. Others are likely to follow your lead and are more than willing to assist you in achieving your ambitions. The force of your personality becomes a prominent factor in your success. This can be a time of profound insight, deep understanding, and significant personal transformation.
Return Ascendant sesquiquadrate Return Jupiter (Strength: 1.38)
Jupiter stressfully aspecting the Ascendant warns of excessive, wasteful, extravagant, exaggerated, and arrogant behavior. Becoming “puffed up” with your own sense of self-importance will make it difficult to engage in any kind of teamwork or cooperative endeavor. Guard against overestimating your abilities, promising more than you can deliver, or putting yourself above the law. If you allow yourself to listen openly to constructive criticism, you will go far in overcoming the negative potentials of this aspect.
Return Ascendant sextile Return Moon’s North Node (Strength: 0.51)
Your connections and contacts with others are in high focus. You could become part of a team of like-minded individuals who unite to pursue a common goal. Fellowship, collegiality, brotherhood, and sisterhood are important themes in your life just now.
§3.4 – Planets Rising in the First House of the Solar Return Chart
Solar Return Planets occupying the Solar Return First House
The Return 1st House reveals your yearly personal or psychological activity. Any planets that occupy the Return 1st House show the nature of your activity and your psychological reactions during the coming year. If a planet lies close to the Return Ascendant (within 5 degrees), you will have a fair amount of personal control over the action. Planets in the 1st House that lie further away from the Return Ascendant (more than 5 degrees) indicate that you will have less control and be more at the mercy of the forces symbolized by those planets.
The Return planets that occupy your Return 1st House are listed below. If this section is blank, there are no 1st House planets in your Return chart.
Return Saturn in the Return 1st House
With Saturn in the Return 1st House, you are likely to settle down and get serious about personal projects and ambitions. Saturn is often a heavy or even depressing influence. This year you receive a report card from the school of hard knocks. There will be a focus on duty, obligation, dedication, antagonism, and responsibility. Others are impressed by your thoughtful preparedness, unless, of course, you haven’t done your homework. Success comes as a result of your own efforts, and you may receive recognition for past determination and hard work. You may also face opposition to the achievement of your personal goals. Saturn’s lesson this year teaches you to deal with criticism from others as well as your own concerns about personal inadequacies. Your sense of humor will help you to deal with the obstacles, burdens, and frustrations that you will face at this time.
§4.0 – The Solar Return Midheaven: Worldly Status, Career, and Public Activity
The North-South or Meridian Axis of the Solar Return Chart
The North-South or Meridian Axis of the astrological map represents your vocation, public image, parents, and family matters. The Midheaven at the top of the chart (due south in those charts of the northern hemisphere) symbolizes your career, worldly status, and public activities. The Imum Coeli (I.C.) at the bottom of the chart signifies your home, your domestic life, and the final conclusion of pending affairs.
Planets that form close aspects with the North-South Axis of the Return chart will color vocational and family matters during the year. The degree of the zodiac on your Return Midheaven depends on your location on earth at the time of your Solar Return. If the Return Midheaven receives particularly stressful aspects, some astrologers advise their clients to travel to a location that will minimize or negate those aspects on the day of their Solar Return. In the following section we consider the influence of the meridian axis in your Return chart.
Return Midheaven in Capricorn
The Midheaven in Capricorn suggests that your career, status, and public activities will involve ambition, determination, perseverance, and organizational skills. You are able to buckle down and accomplish a lot of work. Respect, recognition, and authority become important goals in your work life. You feel a need to stay within the structure and rules established by society.
The House position of the Return Midheaven’s planetary ruler gives further information about your social reputation and vocation in the year ahead. The planet ruling the Return Midheaven is discussed below.
Because the planet Saturn rules the sign Capricorn, Saturn is the ruler of the Midheaven in this year’s Return chart.
§4.1 – The SR House Containing the Planet Ruling the SR Midheaven
Return Saturn in the Return 1st House
This interpretation appeared previously in section §3.4 – Planets Rising in the First House of the Solar Return Chart.
§4.2 – The Natal House Highlighted by the Solar Return Midheaven
Return Midheaven in the Natal 6th House
The Return Midheaven at the top of the Return chart reveals the actions and circumstances of your life that will be most visible to others during the coming year. When the Return Midheaven lies in your Natal 6th House, it highlights issues related to work, health, illness, co-workers, and pets. You are likely to have added job responsibilities in such a year. It is possible that you could take time off from work for reasons of health or to pursue a needed form of therapy. The welfare of a parent may occupy your mind. Your own needs and desires tend to be subordinated to the needs of others at this time.
§4.3 – Aspects involving the Midheaven in the Solar Return Chart
Return Midheaven square Return Neptune (Strength: 6.19)
Neptune in close aspect to your Return Midheaven acts to dissolve past attitudes toward professional work, authority, domestic concerns, and parental issues. You may find yourself feeling confused, diffident, or uncertain about the direction of your career. Be careful not to shoot yourself in the foot, and be sure to get all the facts before making a move that could affect your career or public standing. A parent or authority figure could pass from your life. Travel, especially over water, could pose some difficulty.
Return Midheaven trine Return Part of Fortune (Strength: 4.16)
With the Midheaven favorably aspecting the Part of Fortune in your Return chart this year, you can expect to receive some type of award, honor, diploma, publicity, or recognition for past accomplishments. This often correlates with a job promotion or some other elevation in status.
§4.4 – Planets in the Tenth House of the Solar Return Chart
SR Planets in the Solar Return Tenth House
The Return 10th House relates to career, family, worldly status, and any public actions you take during the year. The Return planets that occupy the Return 10th House reveal the nature of such public activity and how it may affect your vocational and family life.
The Return planets that occupy your Return 10th House are listed below. If this section is blank, there are no 10th House planets in your Return chart.
§5.0 – The Solar Return Moon: Your Emotional Life
General Significance of the Moon
The Moon, ruler of Cancer, receives and reflects the light of the Sun. As such, the Moon symbolizes the inner, reflective, receptive, emotional, and subconscious aspects of human life. The Moon represents our feeling states, heredity, instincts, habit patterns, our early experiences with mothering, and our domestic life. Astrological aspects involving the Moon reveal how we react emotionally, and how we give or receive nurturing and comfort. People signified by the Moon include mothers, females in general, and the significant women in our lives. In health matters, the Moon symbolizes cyclic changes, nutrition, and female issues; also, the breasts, the stomach, and the brain matter.
The Return placement and aspects of the Moon may involve us either personally through health matters and life circumstances governed by the Moon, or indirectly through people symbolized by the Moon. Lunar aspects that are said to perfect on a certain date have an orb of a month or longer. We will next consider the Return zodiacal sign and House placements of the Moon.
Return Moon in Aquarius
The Moon in Aquarius enhances your desire for personal freedom as well as your dislike of restriction and limitation. In your personal life you march to the beat of your own drummer and may be drawn to friends or partners of unusual backgrounds or interests. Commitment to a close relationship could feel too restrictive. You may be drawn emotionally to humanitarian causes for the betterment of mankind. Significant travel often accompanies this placement. If the Moon forms stressful aspects, you should guard against becoming too stubborn or opinionated in your dealing with others.
Return Moon in the Return 11th House
The Moon, which reflects your feelings and emotional life, occupies the Return 11th House of friends, group associations, hopes, and wishes. Your friends offer significant nurturing and emotional support, and you may be called upon to reciprocate. Your circle of friends may expand to include people of different backgrounds. Efforts to increase income from career are likely to go well. You may become active in a group or association whose goals you strongly value.
§5.1 – Aspects involving the Moon in the Solar Return Chart
Return Moon conjunct Return Pluto (Strength: 7.76)
Important changes are likely to occur in your personality and emotional life. You may experience great depth of feeling about matters that are dear to your heart. You may need to deal with issues of power and control in close relationships, and there is likely to be a fair amount of upheaval on the domestic front, but nothing you can’t handle. In fact, changes are necessary and can be quite positive. This aspect is one indicator of a change of residence. Personal transformation may come about through the relationships with women in your life. Psychological insights and psychic experiences commonly accompany this aspect.
Return Moon trine Return Uranus (Strength: 6.73) – Aspect perfects on 6/30/2027.
The Return Moon favorably aspecting Uranus often brings pleasant unexpected changes to your emotional or domestic life. At the same time, you may feel a strong need for freedom and independence. A move or a change in your home environment is possible. Personal relationships take surprising turns under this influence.
Return Moon sextile Return Neptune (Strength: 5.24)
Moon harmoniously contacting Neptune makes sensitive, imaginative, and compassionate. You readily tune into the needs and feelings of others, and you become more aware of your own inner psychological states and unconscious motivations. Artistic, poetic, musical, literary, and creative endeavors go especially well. You develop a greater appreciation of the universality of the human experience. This can be a year of tremendous spiritual growth, especially for those with any type of mystical or religious calling.
Return Moon conjunct Return Moon’s North Node (Strength: 3.00)
The Return Moon falling on the North Node highlights caring emotional contacts and close personal relationships. You are likely to form alliances on the basis of empathic bonding with others. This is the year to “reach out and touch someone.” Associations with women will also be emphasized.
Return Moon trine Natal Mars (Strength: 5.15 ) – Aspect perfects on 8/18/2027.
Return Moon favorably aspecting natal Mars means that your feelings work harmoniously with your self-assertive drives. You can readily accomplish goals in which you are emotionally invested. You tend to be honest and sincere in your dealings with others that are inclined to follow your lead. Where your heart is, there also your treasure shall be.
Return Moon trine Natal Mercury (Strength: 3.71 ) – Aspect perfects on 10/2/2027.
Your thoughts and feelings work harmoniously together. This is an excellent time to do any type of creative writing. Put your feelings into words and allow your intuition to guide your thinking.
Return Moon oppose Natal Ascendant (Strength: 2.77 )
Your close contacts with others will center on getting your emotional needs met. Use this influence to enhance your relationships with partners or a spouse. Women are likely to play an important role in your life during the year ahead. Involvement with the public is also possible.
Return Moon trine Natal Neptune (Strength: 1.59 ) – Aspect perfects on 12/7/2027.
You are likely to experience periods of heightened emotional sensitivity and enhanced intuition. You would do well to channel this energy into creative, imaginative, healing, or altruistic endeavors.
Return Moon conjunct Natal Jupiter (Strength: 1.55 )
The Return Moon on your Natal Jupiter brings supportive intimate relationships into your life. This is a generally favorable influence for your emotional and social life. Good luck and material fortune often accompany this aspect. Long-distance travel and/or significant contacts with foreigners are also likely in the year ahead.
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