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Every year, close to your birthday, the Sun comes back to the exact degree it occupied when you were born. The chart cast for that moment is the solar return, and traditional astrology reads it as the theme of the year from one birthday to the next. The Sun is always in your natal sign; everything else moves, so each year has a different Moon, a different set of aspects, and a different tone.
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Start with the Moon sign: it shows where the year's emotional weight falls. Then look at the tightest aspects. A Sun-Jupiter contact is a year that widens; Sun-Saturn is a year that asks for structure; Venus-Mars is a year with relationships in the foreground. Retrograde planets in the return chart point to areas you revisit rather than start fresh.
The return moment is found by bisection on the Sun's ecliptic longitude, so it is exact to the minute in UT. Without a birth place the houses are omitted; the planets and aspects are the same wherever you are on that day. Birth data is used for the calculation only and is not stored.
Usually within a day of it. The calendar drifts against the Sun's position, so the exact return can fall on the day before or after your birthday, and the time of day changes every year.
The current calendar year by default. The year runs from that return to the next one, so if your birthday has not come yet this year, the chart shown is the year that is about to begin.
No. The natal chart is who you are; the solar return is the weather for one year over that chart. Read them together.