Your solar return

Once a year the Sun comes back to the exact degree it held when you were born — the real event behind "many happy returns." The chart of that instant is a portrait of the year ahead, and it's computed here, on your device, to the same standard as every chart on this site.

Unknown time uses a noon chart and suppresses houses.

A birthplace is required so the birth date can be resolved in its timezone.

Defaults to the birthplace. Relocation changes angles and houses, not planets.

Calculated privately on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Questions, answered

What is a solar return chart?

A chart cast for the instant the transiting Sun returns to its natal longitude — usually within a day of your birthday. Astrologers read it as the weather report for your personal year, from one return to the next.

Should I use my birthplace or where I am now?

Astrologers disagree about whether a solar-return chart should be cast for your birthplace or for where you actually are on your birthday. Both traditions are old and neither is provable, so this tool defaults to your birthplace and lets you recast for any location — the planets don't move, but the houses and rising sign do. If you travel for your birthday, casting both and comparing is the honest experiment.

Does my birth time matter for a solar return?

The return instant itself depends only on your birth date's Sun position, which needs your birth time to pin precisely — an unknown time can shift the return by a few hours and changes the return chart's rising sign. With no birth time we compute from a noon chart and show the return without houses, and say so.