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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm

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your host, Alice Bell, and today we're talking all about

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solar return charts. Solar returns not to be confused with

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saturn return. Solar return is completely different than a saturn return.

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This is a predictive technique in astrology. It's personally my

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favorite predictive technique. It's what I got into first, Like,

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it's just easier to understand than transits and progressions, and

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it's eerily accurate in my opinion. But basically, it's a

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chart that refreshes at your birthday each year, and in astrology,

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you can think of your birthday as your personal new year,

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Like your birthday is always the time of year when

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new themes start to surface, and whatever the vibe is

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in the weeks that immediately surround your birthday is usually

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indicative of like, Okay, these are themes that will be

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working through for the next several months, and that is

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very obviously seen in the solar return. It shows like

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why you feel a certain way year to year. So yeah,

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every single year, on your birthday you get a new

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solar return chart. It can be read as a standalone

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chart that just lasts for that twelve month period from

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birthday to birthday, and it shows what areas of your

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life will be most emphasized that year and what themes

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you can expect to be a bigger deal. And like

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I said, it's easy to comprehend because if you know

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how to read a birth chart, then it's like you

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can apply those same skills to the solar return and

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just know that that's a standalone chart.

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Speaker 2: It just lasts a year.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot of moving parts that go on

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with a solar return. And what I also like about

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this technique is that when it comes to prediction, I

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always put transits first, Like that's my primary thing that

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I always look at, Like if it's not showing up

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in a transit chart at the very least, then it's

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not something that's likely going to happen at that period

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of time. But like the same rising sign, for instance,

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will get the same transits moving through the same houses

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in their chart at the same time, like all Leo risings,

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we all have Jupiter moving through our twelfth house right now,

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whereas like all Virgo risings currently have Saturn leaving their

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seventh and moving into their eighth. But what I really

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like about the solar return is it shows how those

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transits are actually playing out for you and why one

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Virgo rising, for instance, might feel completely differently with Saturn

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in the seventh than another Virgo rising. It just shows like, Okay,

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how are we actually feeling on an individual level about

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those transits and how they're affecting my chart, Like let's

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go a bit deeper here. And I'm actually recording this

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episode on my birthday Sunday, January twenty fifth, so it

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feels very fitting since I am entering into a new

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solar return chart today and I'm always thinking more about

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this at this time of year because it's like it's

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hard to deny there's new energy coming in right at

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your birthday. So in this episode, I want to break

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solar returns down into an easy way for you to

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go and interpret your own solar return charts. So I'm

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going to give five key steps you should take just

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right off the bat, what you should be prioritizing when

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you look at a solar return. And as I go

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through this, it could be very helpful to pull up

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your past solar returns. These charts are available on all

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free chart generator websites like astroseik astro dot com. They

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all have options to pull up a solar return, but

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go back and look at like, what was a super

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difficult year in your life, and how was that represented

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in the solar return with what houses were activated, what

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planets were in those houses, and then compare and contrast

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that to a really great year in your life. Or

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maybe there's certain years that have felt very significant where

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a ton of changes took place, or you were more

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visible in your career, or there were these just major

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life developments like getting married or having a baby, for instance,

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versus what are years that felt more like not a

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lot was happening, like it was a more internal behind

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the scenes here. And that's really how you can start

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getting an idea of how these are actually playing out.

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Like always start with your past and how certain elements

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are resonating with you. And if you like this episode

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and you want to go deeper with learning about solar returns,

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I have two written guides on this prediction technique on

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substack Astrology with Alice or Alicepell dot substack dot com

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that I've put out over the last couple of years.

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So you can search in the search bar on my

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substack channel. I believe the first one is just called

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tips for Interpreting a solar return chart, and then the

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second one is called Solar Returns Part two, And in

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those I go through a more detailed explanation of like

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pulling up the chart, more details on these steps I'm

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about to go through, and then part two, that guide

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takes it a step further, looking at different patterns and

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how you can combine perfections and solar returns and different

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techniques you can incorporate there. And also because these solar

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return guides have been some of my most read articles

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on substack, I'm going to be hosting a live workshop

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on solar returns in mid February for paid substack subscribers

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to join, and that'll be fun to share past solar

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return charts, learn from each other, and just really cement

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the knowledge of this prediction technique because it's so accurate,

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and it's just like once you understand solar returns, it's

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like hard to not keep looking at them. Like I

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will go through my own life and look at every

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solar return up until like my eighties, my nineties, just

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to get a picture of like these patterns and these

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segments of life where there's very visible themes that pop

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up in the solar returns. So yeah, if you're subscribed

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on substack, stay tuned for more details coming on date

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and time and where to join that workshop that will

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be coming in the middle of February. And one last

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thing in Substack news. Earlier this week, I put out

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a guide on the steps I take when making predictions

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in general. So this goes over what hierarchy of prediction

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techniques that I use, how I blend them together, so

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looking at transits, lunar returns, solar returns, perfections, and how

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I keep track of all of these things and incorporate

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them together without it feeling very jumbled and confusing. So

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if you want more information on using astrology in a

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predictive way and to understand the timing of your life,

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that might be helpful to check out too. Okay, so

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let's get into the five steps you should be taking

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when interpreting a solar return chart. So, like I just mentioned,

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you can pull up a solar return on most free

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chart generator websites. I love using astro seek dot com.

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Astro dot com is also a really good resource too.

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The one thing that I do that might be different

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from other astrologers. Is I always set the reference place,

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like there'll be a place to at the bottom of

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these charts where it's like set the reference place for

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the solar return. I always, always, always use the birth city.

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born that is super significant when it comes to all

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of this timing in your life. So I never change

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the solar return to reflect the city I'm currently living

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in or where I might be traveling on my birthday.

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when I do that. It's always way more accurate when

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you use the birth city. And that became very of because,

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like my sister was living in Australia and she was

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born on the East coast of the United States, and

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chart to like her birth city in the US, and

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so much more reflective of her experiences she was going through,

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even living on the other side of the world that

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I couldn't deny its importance. And I also find like,

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if you were to travel on the day of your birthday,

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the city or country in what you're traveling to, Like

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if you set the solar return to that, it's just

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not accurate. Like always use the birth city is my

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main point here. So the first step once you have

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the chart pulled up is where is the sun in

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the solar return chart? Because this is a solar return,

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So the sun is like what is getting the return here?

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at your birthday, the sun is always returning to the

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sign and which you were born, your zodiac sign. So

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what I really prioritize with the sun in this chart

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is its house placement, and depending on what house the

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sun is falling in, the solar return really shows like

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where you're growing into this greater sense of self over

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the course of that year, and where maybe you're developing

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these new sides to your identity or learning how to

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Speaker 2: And be more fully yourself.

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Speaker 1: It may also be that that's where a lot of

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your attention is directed that year, Like that's where you're

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coming up with the most goals, that's what you're the

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most focused on for that twelve month period. So just

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to give a couple of examples, like last year I

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had the sun on the mid heaven in the ninth

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house of my solar return, and it actually wasn't like

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a huge year for career visibility, but I noticed more

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so that it was a year of putting a lot

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of thought into where I wanted to be in my

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career in the long term. And I feel like that's

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such a mid heaven even like tens in the tenth

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house of a solar return theme, just like how do

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to be perceived by people? And having that likely tied

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back in with what you do for a living, whereas

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second house, finances are a huge deal with a second

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house son solar return. And maybe it's that you're making

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more money, but it could also be that you're spending

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a lot more and you're growing the most by like

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and keeping track of all of these expenses, or just

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recognizing the value you bring to your job and that

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you need to be paid a certain amount for your work. Meanwhile,

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solar return son when someone is very involved with either

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being pregnant or having a child, and children are taking

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up a lot of the energy that year, or they're

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growing the most through learning how to be a new parent.

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children are pregnancy is not in your places at all,

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would be really refinding your creativity and getting involved in

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projects that aren't necessarily linked to work, but are just

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simply for your own enjoyment. Dating could also be another

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solar return. But yeah, I hope you get the gist

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from just looking at the sun in these various houses

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of a solar return, and how just automatically you can

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know that house right off the bat is automatically going

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to be a bigger focus for you that year. So

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moving on to step two. This step two is always

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but even more importantly, what house in your natal chart,

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like your birth chart does this rising sign rule that

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honestly is more important than just like what is the

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rising sign of the solar return. So let's say you

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that year, like probably having to take on greater responsibilities,

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putting in more work, maybe feeling more stressed out. But

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what Capricorn rules in your natal chart. The third house

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themes are brought to such prominence and become almost a

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lens through which you approach the rest of your life

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throughout that year long period. So it might be a

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year where there's a lot more socializing or quick like

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short form travel or wanting to learn a specific skill,

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or maybe writing and communication based projects are what you're

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heavily involved with that year. To contrast, as a Leo rising,

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Capricorn rules my six house. So whenever I get a

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Capricorn rising in the solar return, I can automn six

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house themes, like my health particularly that's going to be

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a huge theme for the year, like where there's probably

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a health issue that I have to deal with, or

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going to be a pivotal year with career, either where

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you're figuring out what do you want to do next

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with work, or you're receiving more attention or even like

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a leadership role in your career. It really depends on

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where other things are in the solar return chart. But

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just by looking at what natal house is brought to

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the ascendant can give you so much insight into other

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key themes you're likely to experience during that year. For

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step three, it does take the interpretation of the rising

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sign a bit further. So step three is where's the

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chart ruler? What house is that falling in the solar return?

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So if you have a Gemini rising chart in your

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solar return, where's mercury? If you have an Aquarius rising,

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where a Saturn? If you have an Ares rising, where's Mars?

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So it really depends on what planet rules the rising sign.

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And for this I use traditional rulers, So I use

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Mars for a Scorpio rising, Saturn for an Aquarius rising,

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in Jupiter for a Pisces rising. But the house placement

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of the chart ruler for that year will act similarly

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to like where's the house placement of the Sun. It'll

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just be this other area of intense focus for that year,

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like where you're really coming into this greater sense of self.

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So a lot of what I just said about the

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Sun's placement in a solar return can be applied to

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the chart ruler. And it's it's kind of like how

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I was saying how the natal house brought to the

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focus for that year, like the Capricorn rising ruling my

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sixth house, then noting like, okay, where is sadder and

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the ruler of this Capricorn rising placed in the chart?

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Where am I noticing the most growth or the more

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of steps taken that have to do with my health?

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And also these Capricorn themes in general. And I find

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that years when the chart ruler of the solar return

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is placed in houses like the twelfth or the eighth

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or the fourth, it does tend to be a more

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introspective year where there's more like transformation going on internally

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and there could be like grappling with more difficult emotions

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or maybe stuff going on with relationships or family dynamics,

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whereas like a more visible, like action oriented year, the

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chart ruler might be in the eleventh house. That would

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mean like maybe you feel very supported by people and

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you have like a greater sense of community that year,

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or if the chart ruler happens to be in the

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seventh house, maybe there's this major new step being brought

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up in a relationship, or that could very well be

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a year where you do get into a relationship and

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that's a huge focus.

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Speaker 2: For that year.

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Speaker 1: I remember one year I had an Aquarius rising chart,

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and even though the sun was in the first house,

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because I'm an Aquarius, so it would automatically be in

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the first house if I have an Aquarius rising solar return,

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the ruling planet of that rising Saturn was in the

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twelfth that year, so it very much was a twelfth

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house year where I felt kind of burned out, didn't

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really know, felt directionless, confused and just had a lot

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of time alone reflecting on what comes next. And then

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the next year, I had the chart ruler in the

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ninth house and it was such a more outgoing year

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where I really I wanted to teach and like share

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knowledge more. And I actually started my first podcast during

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a chart ruler in the ninth House of a solar

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return year. So I just love that. Like with a

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solar return it it only lasts one year, so if

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you do have a difficult time, you can know, Okay,

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in several months from now, we're going to get a

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totally different vibe here and we can go from having

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a super depressing year to suddenly at my next birthday

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having this other area be a huge focus and I

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finally have direction again and I feel supported by people.

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So that's just like why I like solar returns in general.

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They give a very firm start and end date to things. Okay,

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moving on to step number four. Where is the moon

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in the solar return chart? And unlike the sun, so

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I mentioned how the sun sign never changes, the moon

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sign does, and it becomes very important looking at what

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sign element it is and the solar return and also

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what house is it falling in for that year two.

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So similar to the exerss we just did with the

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solar return rising sign, I like to do the same

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with the solar return moon, looking at based on what

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sign it's falling in for the year, what house in

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your birth chart does that moon activate as well as

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what house is it falling in in the solar return

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and in your birth chart there will be a trio

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of houses that are ruled by the same element. So

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like the first, fifth, and ninth houses, they all have

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to do with a creativity, learning, self expression. They're all

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going to be ruled by one sign element like a

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fire sign and air sign, a water sign or an

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earth sign. Same with the relationship oriented houses in your chart,

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the third, seventh, and eleventh, the career oriented houses second, sixth,

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and tenth again, those are all going to be ruled

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by this same sign element. And then the mental health

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more introverted houses twelfth, fourth, and eighth will be two.

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So depending on what signs rule, like what sign element

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rules that trio of houses in your chart. When a

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solar return moon falls in that element of signs, it

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brings that energy of okay, this is going to be

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maybe a more introverted year or more social year. So

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as a fire sign rising, all of my relationship oriented

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houses in my chart, the third, seventh, and eleventh, they're

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all ruled by air sign risings. And I notice that

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when I get a solar return moon that falls in

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an air sign, that tends to be a way more

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social year where there's just a lot of outings, a

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lot of meeting people versus solar return moon and a

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water sign. I really don't like, to be honest, because

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it's a more mental health focused year where emotions feel stronger.

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So looking at the element in which the solar return

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moon falls is very key, but then also looking at

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the house in which it falls in the solar return

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is very important. And the moon shows where you're going

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through a lot of fluctuation throughout that year. So the

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topics of the house in which the moon is placed

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may not feel the most steady, and maybe there's a

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lot of emotions that are coming up related to that

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area of your life, or there's like ups and downs

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where things may not feel. Kind of like I just said,

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study or committed are not words I would associate with

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the solar return moon. It's more like okay. When you're up,

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you're up okay, and then we're gonna come back down

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and then up again. It's just a lot of fluctuations

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throughout the year. There so often when I see the

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solar return moon in the seventh house of that person's

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solar return chart, that can be a year where like

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maybe they're going through a breakup or like a friendship breakup,

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even where they're kind of emotional about where they stand

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with a friend and like emotions are very up and

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down regarding that relationship, or maybe they are in a

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relationship but it's I don't know, like things are long

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distance and you're kind of emotional about not seeing that

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person all the time, or there's you're going through as

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a partnership that requires more emotional energy for me, and

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it may not feel just totally stable for that year,

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because the moon also represents the home and family and

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very much like your personal innermost self when it falls

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in the prominent parts of the chart, like the ascendant

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and the mid heaven specifically, like if you have the

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moon on one of those angles, or even just in

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the first or tenth house for the year, it can

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show that home and family or emotional topics are very

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much at the forefront of your attention that year.

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Speaker 2: And I've said this before.

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Speaker 1: I think maybe in a workshop that I did on

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soil it returns back in twenty twenty three. But when

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the moon falls, like in the first house, that's often

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a year when someone is having kids or moving homes,

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just or topics involving the family are very important that year.

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And the same could be said for the moon on

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the mid heaven, whereas maybe you have the moon in

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the third or the ninth house for the year, and

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this topic of learning and travel and education, like that's

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so much more important and that's where all of your

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emotional energy is being directed. But it could also be

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like that stuff may not feel totally easy, and it's

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kind of like what type of content do I want

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to put out there? And constantly going back and forth

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in your emotions of what subjects resonate the most with me,

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what should I write about? What should I share about,

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and having that just be an ongoing theme, And then

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that brings us to step five, which is what houses

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are emphasized in the solar return chart in general, and

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also what's the vibe of the planets that are placed

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in these houses, So in transits there'll be certain planetary

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configurations that go on for a while. So, for instance,

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the two planets Saturn and Neptune have been very close together,

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first in Pisces, and now as we move into people

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getting twenty twenty six solar returns charts, you're gonna see

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Saturn and Neptune both in aries in the aries world

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house of your solar return chart. So those are very tough,

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like stressful, confusing planets put together. So looking at the

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solar return you can kind of know, Okay, that's a

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stressful energy. What house is that activating in the solar

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return chart? How is that maybe a harder area of

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my life this year? Or how are we really having

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to get things together? May maybe it feels like I'm

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putting a lot of work into this area of my life,

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but I still feel frustrated with where this is eventually

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leading me, like there's not a clear long term picture

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there yet. For instance, some of my hardest, most stressful

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career years have been when Saturn or Neptune are both together,

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are in career oriented houses of the solar return, like

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the tenth house, the second house. It just leaves things

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feeling very confusing with work. And then we can contrast

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that with, okay, where are more positive planets placed, and

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it might be that you do get a positive planet.

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Like last year, I had Venus thrown in with Saturn

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and Neptune in one house of the chart, and it

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was like, Okay, there were good things happening there, but

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ultimately I felt like Saturn and Neptune outweighed the presence

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of Venus and there was more stress than positivity. But

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let's say you have like Jupiter or Venus in a

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separate house, then maybe like that house would be a

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good area of life for you to lean into that

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year because there's more happening there, there's more opportunities for growth,

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or things are flowing much more easily, Like I just

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went over tougher career years were when Saturn and Neptune

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or like even just those separately were in work focused houses.

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But like a really good year for my astrology business

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was when I had Venus and Jupiter both in the

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second house of the solar return, and that really kickstarted

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my business and I started making way more money than

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I was used to making, So that became an area

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like second house topics were a focus in that that

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was where a lot of positive opportunity and growth was

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coming through that year. So I guess part one of

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this step five is like what are the planets in

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the houses? What's the energy of those planets like Saturn

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and Neptune and Pluto would be more challenging, Mars would

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also be more challenging placed in a house, whereas Sun

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Venus Jupiter would likely be more positive, Mercury more neutral.

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I'm missing a planet, You're honest, would bring change to

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a certain house. So it really depends on what planets

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are placed there and what's the vibe they're bringing to

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that solar return house. And then also just stepping back

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and looking at the solar return chart as a whole, like,

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not every single house and the solar return is going

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to be filled with planets, So it's looking at what

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houses are filled with planets and how are those houses

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and the topics associated with those houses setting the tone

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for that year. There might be some years where it's

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a very eighth house heavy year and maybe finances take

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up a lot of your energy, or dealing with relationship

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conflict or your own mental health. Same could go for

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a twelfth house year. I have a friend and she

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was having like such a horrible year, and I go

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show me your solar return and it was like every

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single planet was in the twelfth or the eighth house,

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and I was like, no, wonder, Like next year's going

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to feel so much better. This is such a like

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internal like things not happening type of year for you,

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Whereas if it was a third, seventh, eleventh House, even

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fifth House oriented type of year, being around people having

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fun experiences, feeling supported by community or in a relationship

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or dealing with relationship stuff would be a bigger theme.

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But again it's important to check what planets are there.

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Like I've had really depressing years dating or with relationship

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stuff where it was Neptune and Chirn or in the

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seventh House. Same with Neptune and Chirn when they were

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together in Piscey in the fifth house. Like those years

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were so much different than having Jupiter in the seventh.

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Speaker 2: House one year, for instance.

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Speaker 1: So to reiterate focus on what houses are highlighted and

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then get into what's the vibe of the planets that

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are there and are they bringing challenging energy, are they

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bringing more positive energy? But yeah, those are my five

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initial steps to get you started on interpreting solar return charts.

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If you want a more in depth to look at

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this predictive technique, my guides Part one and Part two

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are available on substack. Part two especially has a lot

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more information than I gave here, and stay tuned for

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more details on the upcoming workshop that I'm going to

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be hosting on solar returns. And if you can't catch

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it live when I send out the date for it,

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I always send out the replay to watch permanently on substack.

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Thank you for listening and I'll see you back here

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next time