A Circle of Fortune--Exploring a Solar Return Chart
While we celebrate a collective New Year each year depending on our culture, each of us celebrates a personal new year every time our birthdays roll around. On this day, we begin a new cycle determined by the new planetary alignment in the sky as the planets fall into the houses in our Natal Charts in the form of transits. When our birthdays roll around we visit an astrologer who casts a Solar Return Chart for the upcoming birthday year. While the Sun always returns to the exact degree of our births, the other planets land in different signs and directions while informing us of upcoming energies. As I prepare to explore my own Solar Return Chart, I feel guided to share general insights. As you already know, astrology transits feature cycles whether that is the shorter cycle of the Moon or a longer cycle of an outer planet. For instance, the Moon travels through each Zodiac Sign every 28 days, but there are even longer Moon cycles such as the cycle between a Cancer Full Moon w