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Differing Solar Returns
The important point to remember is that any type of Solar Return is a "transit" chart, among other things. The Sun transits natal Sun, reaffirming one's place in the world, their potential and vitality. However, this Sun-to-Sun pairing brings along with it a different pattern of planet-aspect foci. The Suns are in different houses, the planets are in different signs and houses for the most part and form different relationships to each other as well as to the natal planets.
If you try to put all of that into a cogent overall synthesis statement you'll get both tongue-tied and mentally scrambled. That's why so many tropical-zodiac or non-precessing astrologers have trouble getting a good story out of a solar return chart. It takes work in most cases. Using a cyclic approach makes life so much easier.
Now, in addition to being a transit chart, Solar Returns are also cyclic. Your first Solar Return chart at year one finds the MC having moved some 450 degrees ahead over that yearly period. (The MC advances day-to-day over a degree while the Sun advances just under a degree per day). If you figure it out, that 450 degrees per year means that the MC returns to its birth (or previous S/R) position some nine months and two weeks later. This part of the cycle coincides with the human gestation cycle. Two months and two weeks later that ever advancing MC reaches next year's S/R MC position. The cycle continues from birth (or, perhaps, conception) through your whole life and beyond. We seem to have an affinity for a moving personal zodiac cycle that is sensitive to planets being at the angles defined by our earth-location as that personal zodiac cycle passes over head. Interesting stuff. Dave
The important point to remember is that any type of Solar Return is a "transit" chart, among other things. The Sun transits natal Sun, reaffirming one's place in the world, their potential and vitality. However, this Sun-to-Sun pairing brings along with it a different pattern of planet-aspect foci. The Suns are in different houses, the planets are in different signs and houses for the most part and form different relationships to each other as well as to the natal planets.
If you try to put all of that into a cogent overall synthesis statement you'll get both tongue-tied and mentally scrambled. That's why so many tropical-zodiac or non-precessing astrologers have trouble getting a good story out of a solar return chart. It takes work in most cases. Using a cyclic approach makes life so much easier.
Now, in addition to being a transit chart, Solar Returns are also cyclic. Your first Solar Return chart at year one finds the MC having moved some 450 degrees ahead over that yearly period. (The MC advances day-to-day over a degree while the Sun advances just under a degree per day). If you figure it out, that 450 degrees per year means that the MC returns to its birth (or previous S/R) position some nine months and two weeks later. This part of the cycle coincides with the human gestation cycle. Two months and two weeks later that ever advancing MC reaches next year's S/R MC position. The cycle continues from birth (or, perhaps, conception) through your whole life and beyond. We seem to have an affinity for a moving personal zodiac cycle that is sensitive to planets being at the angles defined by our earth-location as that personal zodiac cycle passes over head. Interesting stuff. Dave