The exact return
We find the moment the Sun reaches the exact ecliptic degree it occupied at your birth, to the second.
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Charts & calculations · Solar return
Free solar return chart
The exact chart for the moment the Sun returns to its natal degree — your astrological year-ahead.
Birth data + return year
A solar return is cast for the instant — usually within hours of your birthday — when the Sun crosses its natal degree again. The houses and angles of that chart describe the tone of the upcoming year: where the Sun lands, what aspects the Ascendant takes, which planets cluster near the angles. Traditional astrologers used it for annual omens; modern practitioners treat it as a year-themes briefing.
You can compute the return for any past or future year, see the natal-vs-return overlay with inter-chart aspects, and inspect the new houses. Save the chart for AI-written year-ahead readings and to relocate the return to a different city.
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What this calculator does
A return chart
A full natal chart is computed for that moment at your return location, with the year’s themes encoded in its houses and angles.
Overlay & aspects
You see the return wheel against your natal, plus the inter-chart aspects that flag the year’s biggest stories.