Each year at the time of your Birthday, the Sun returns to the exact degree of where it was when you were born. This is called a Solar Return (the Sun’s return). When the Sun returns to the precise point of your Sun’s position at birth, a chart is drawn up for the exact time of the return. This chart reflects what you will experience from one Birthday to the next. It covers one year’s time frame.
The Natal Chart (the chart at birth) shows your overall destiny, the patterns you’ve come in to work on, essentially the intentions of your Soul and the external arena in which you will experience them.
The Solar Return Chart reveals the timing when certain events may unfold during that year. Both charts are equally important, symbolizing the two wheels in a clock whose motion measures time. It is this interplay of these two charts that augment one’s purpose and direction in life.
A Solar Return is calculated for the day, month, time and town (latitude and longitude) of the Solar Return. The TOWN of the Solar Return is where you are physically at the exact time of the Solar Return. The Solar Return Chart is drawn up the same way as your Natal (birth chart) is drawn up. Remember, the Natal Chart is calculated for the day, month, time, and town of your birth. The Solar Return truly is a rebirth, a renewing of your energy, purpose and direction.
Now, if you change where you are for a few days, the town (latitude and longitude) at your next Birthday, you actually alter your Solar Return Chart for the year and consequently what is going to occur in your life.
How does this happen? A chart is a circle divided into twelve equal sections called houses. Each section/house represents a different area of life. For example, the 10th house represents career; the 2nd house represents personal finances, and so on. The planets are situated in these different houses in your Solar Return Chart, showing what is going to occur. By traveling to a very specific town for your Birthday, you alter what houses the planets will be situated in, thus changing what areas of your life will be triggered. Amazing! There is a catch, however. Although you can change what areas of your life will be triggered, you can’t change the Planets you have to work with. What this means is that on your Birthday the particular Planetary set up and the planets’ relationship to each other, which signs they are in and the aspects they make cannot be altered. In other words, the actual energies you’ll be dealing with can’t be changed; but where those energies play out can be changed.
It’s completely up to you. Some folks book once a year for a check in and others want to connect more frequently. This can shift throughout one’s journey and what they are going through at any particular time.
I recommend grounding prior to a session, so that you are fully present. The more you put into the session, the more you will get out of it.
Yes, the call is recorded and then a link is e-mailed to you within 48 hours of the session.
I use different house systems, but am most comfortable with Koch and Equal house systems. I am starting to work with Whole Sign Houses as well.
The birth time provides the exact degrees of all the planets and angles of your beautiful mandala that is you. That being said, a great deal of information can be gleaned from the birth day, year and location alone, though it can be difficult to understand where certain cycles may “play out” in your life without knowing the exact time.
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I highly recommend the Solar Return readings. Opening to the year ahead at a specific time and place has frequently brought me peace and resolution in equal parts. My life would be shallower and narrower without her readings. We are all lucky that she is on this planet.
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Most of us need practices every day to make sure that we remain conscious. Astrology helps us to remain conscious by revealing the psychic weather happening all around us. By paying attention to it, we stay awake. And so astrology itself, used in the right way, can be understood as a kind of spiritual practice.
Acyuta-Bhava Das