I wrote a pretty good piece about solar returns in 2009 – Solar Return: As Far As I Can See, They Work Beautifully.  I had a cardinal grand cross in my solar return at the time and that was the year this blog became a structured business. My current solar return is also pretty heavily cardinal.

Next year’s solar return shows me working one on one with a tremendous focus on service. I will be helping “the other” (which I realize is also self-serving).
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“You’ll experiment and find your way. Post your birthday, you find yourself wearing these new shoes. You’re not sure how you’re going to walk in them but invariably you adjust and it is almost always a pretty smooth process.”

I wrote that to a client regarding her solar return chart and I find this is the case. For some reason, people are almost always daunted by their solar return.
Continue reading Demystifying Astrology: What Is A Solar Return Chart? How Do I Read It?

My upcoming solar return which I know is wicked. I don’t look at it because it’s akin to looking at open heart surgery or something which is not something I’d line up to do having Libra and all. But I am feeling so happy today so I threw the chart up and noticed there was just one trine in a sea of hard aspects on the angles no less. I am not complaining because the sky in general is acute these days and I doubt many of you are much better off.

Continue reading One Unimpressive Trine… Oh Woe Is Me! “It’s the new mother nature takin over…”

Solar returns bug me because they work. I would like them not to work. I would like them to be silly and there is at least one astrologer I respect that thinks they have no merit but my experience consistently shows these charts to be valid.

My last solar return had a Cardinal grand cross in it and I was pretty disgusted. Simply put, I did not want to be or become the person it described. I liked myself the way I was, much softer than I am now. I just didn’t want to have the command the chart described but as you can see the chart has manifested itself and I have grown into these shoes.

Continue reading Solar Return: As Far As I Can See, They Work Beautifully

Pluto goes direct on September 8th and boy it’s a hell of chart.

The Sun is conjunct Saturn, Venus, Mars and Mercury (ruler of Virgo, birthday girls and boys) all tightly conjunct in Libra in a tight square to Jupiter in Capricorn and trine the Moon in Sagittarius.

Another thing notable (as pointed out on one of the astrology mailing lists I monitor) every planet in the chart is aspected and if this happens to be your birthday, you’re going to have a year to remember.

Lots of charisma and lots to say. People will be listening, they’ll have no choice. If you have been waiting for a big year, I’d say this is it.

Virgos are going to have one hell of year.  By year, I mean solar year, from birthday, 2008 until birthday 2009.  Reason being most will have Saturn conjunct their Sun in their solar return but even more compelling, ruler Mercury will be in Libra conjunct Venus and Mars.

Now translated, I’d say this is going to transform all Virgo’s into leaders over the next year. These solar return charts are very Cardinal and if you are a Virgo you will be taking charge and further it will be your responsibility to do exactly that.  You just don’t get dealt cards like this by accident, you must play them.

On top of what I have already mentioned there is support for the Sun and Saturn from Jupiter in Capricorn and anyone who is willing to work is going to be rewarded and probably richly.

As to how you will feeeeel about this, that depends on the Moon in the chart (the day you were born) along with you basic nature so it is variable but that stuff up there is correct and hard core – Mark my words.

Can any Virgos feel this coming?