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Every year the Sun comes back to the exact degree it held when you were born. The chart cast for that moment is your solar return. Astrologers read it as a map of the year from one birthday to the next.
It works on top of your birth chart, showing which themes come forward for twelve months and where. These articles explain how to read one, starting with the Rising sign and the house that holds the Sun. Where you spend your birthday also plays a part, because the chart is cast for that place.
Once a year the Sun returns to the exact degree it held at your birth and a new chart begins. What changes and what never does, where it is calculated and why it says little on its own.
Read the articleBehind the birthday phrase about another trip around the sun sits a real chart, drawn for one exact moment. What that chart can tell you about your year: its rising sign, its Moon, the houses it lights up and the question it leaves you with.
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