Solar Return??

[kimmerspixelated]

I learned of a new term today as far as astrology goes... Experts please weigh in... let me see if I have this right...Solar return is your personal real New Year?? It isn't always your exact birthdate??
If you are aware of your exact solar return it adds value to your re-newing rituals?? Or something like that??

Ya got something more in-depth to share?? Thanks!

[Sanity Claws]

1. I think I understand

The solar return is when the sun returns to the same position it was at your birth.
It won't be at the same time as your birth time because of leap year.

[stellanoir]

2. The Solar Return is when the Sun hits the exact degree and minute

on which it was transiting when you first took your very first breath. Or in some cases, your very first Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

That's sort of an inexactitude of birth time joke really.

But seriously, when the Sun lines up with where it was on the event of your birth can vary from year to year due to one's birth year's relationship to the occurrence of leap year. It can occur on the day before, the day of, or the day after one's birth date at varying times of the day.

The snapshot of the Sun's position in the sky and it's relationship to the angles of the chart, the planets and asteroids, the Moon and it's Nodes and their assorted house placements reflects the potentials, priorities, and possible pitfalls of the year to come. It's employed by many as a very useful forecasting tool. So much so that I tend to throw in a freebie look at the Solar Return chart when someone has a reading within a week or two of their birthday.

Some like to visualize and affirm what they'd like to experience throughout the year at the precise moment of their Solar Return. .

Since the house placements of a chart are predicated by location, location, location, some people journey to far flung places to optimize angular planetary placements. Those who've not the budget for such extravagances argue that the charts shift back to one's place of primary residence when they go home.

My experiences of Solar Returns in other time zones have pretty much lasted for the duration of the year so I've no opinion on this astro dispute.

I've heard people refer to the day when the transiting Sun conjoins one's Ascendant as one's "personal new year" though.

So go figure.