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Your year begins
on your birthday.

Your solar return as a book: the sky at the exact moment the Sun returns to its birth position — what your new personal year feels, loves and intends, plus the dates it touches you exactly.

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A whole year, read in advance

Your solar moment

The to-the-minute moment your new personal year begins — with the full solar return chart as a drawing, valid birthday to birthday.

The planets of your year

Sun through Saturn in your solar chart: how this one year feels, thinks, loves, fights and grows — read in plain language, no jargon.

The dates of your year

Birthday to birthday: the exactly computed days when slow planets hit your chart — with a reading and concrete tips.

Computed from your birthday

Name and date of birth are enough — birth time and place unlock the chapter on your year’s Ascendant.

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Your solar return

What’s your name?

Your name goes on the cover — your year, truly yours.

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Solar return as a book: your new personal year, explained

A chart for exactly one year of your life, computed for the moment the Sun comes back.

What a solar return is

The Sun takes a year to travel once around the zodiac. Around your birthday it reaches the exact degree it held when you were born. That can be the day before, the day itself or the day after. A new chart is cast for that precise moment: your solar return, often called the year-ahead chart. It holds until the next return, so from birthday to birthday. The free solar return calculator gives you the overview; the book reads every chapter in full.

One thing helps when you read it: a solar return doesn’t describe who you are. That is what your birth chart is for. It describes the colour of one year. If your solar Mars sits in Cancer, the book is more likely to ask: what do you want to fight for this year when it comes to home? Whether that fits is yours to check.

House wheel with the first house highlighted, the Ascendant of the solar year, and the key facts: valid from birthday to birthday, seven planet chapters from Sun to Saturn — House 1 starts at the Ascendant. In a solar return it shows the attitude you carry into the new personal year.

What the solar return book contains
Part	Contents	Needs
Your solar moment	The moment of the Sun’s return, its validity and the solar chart as a drawing	Date of birth
Planets of the year	Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the solar chart	Date of birth
Ascendant and houses	Which areas of life the year plays out in	Birth time and place
Dates of the year	The days Jupiter to Pluto meet your Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars	Date of birth

Birth time and place: what they change

With a time and place, the chapter on the year’s Ascendant and houses is added.
Without a time we calculate at noon. The solar moment can then shift by a few hours, and the houses chapter is left out.
Houses depend on location. We use your birthplace and say so in the book; the planets’ signs hold anywhere.

When the book is worth reading

It reads best in the weeks around your birthday, while the new year still feels new. You can copy the dates in the last chapter into your calendar, or import them as a file with the Transit Calendar. How moving planets touch your chart is shown for free in the transit calculator. Your full birth chart has its own birth chart book, and more gift ideas are in the shop.

Technical details
Feature	Detail
Format	A4 PDF
Solar years starting	2026 or 2027
Inputs	Name and date of birth; birth time and place optional
Edition	Digital only, no printed edition
How to get it	Included in Pro, downloaded straight from your Pro account

Good to know

What is a solar return?

Every year, around your birthday, the Sun returns to the exact point it held at your birth. The chart for that precise moment is your solar return — your astrological year-ahead chart. It holds from birthday to birthday and describes the colouring of your new personal year: how it feels, loves, works and wants to grow.

When does my solar year start and end?

From the moment of the Sun’s return until the next one — one year, birthday to birthday. The book gives you the exact moment to the minute and prints the validity (“valid from … to …”) right on the opening pages.

What if I don’t know my birth time?

No problem — we calculate at noon. The exact solar moment can shift by a few hours and we honestly leave out the houses chapter (the year’s Ascendant). Every planet chapter and your transit dates stay just as personal.

Birth place or current home — which counts for the houses?

The houses of a solar return depend on where you spend the moment of the Sun’s return — classically one uses the current place of residence. We calculate with your birth city and say so openly in the book. The year’s planet signs are independent of location — they hold anywhere in the world.

Is the book a good birthday gift?

Perfect, actually — it is literally the book of the new year of their life. All you need is the recipient’s name and date of birth; add birth time and place and the chapter on the year’s Ascendant comes with it. As a PDF it is ready in a minute — even on the morning of the birthday.