Solar Return · 2026
StarBind
vi
The return year in four movements
Four quarters,
four atmospheres.
i
Mar — May
A first inhalation — the new chart settles in.
The return Sun stations in your eleventh house and Jupiter trines it from the third — meaning your social field opens before your inner life catches up. Expect new acquaintances, group projects, and a slight sense of being carried forward without choosing the direction. Don't choose yet. Let the year introduce itself.
14mar
02apr
19may
ii
Jun — Aug
The work surfaces — body, routines, and craft.
Mars enters the sixth and stays. The pleasant openness of the first quarter narrows to a daily question: what am I actually building? A practice — physical or creative or both — wants to become regular. Saturn at the descendant tests partnerships in late July; structures that have outlived their purpose will not survive the month gracefully.
11jun
24jul
17aug
iii
Sep — Nov
A flowering — the year's highest signal.
Venus and Jupiter conjoin in your fifth in early September — affection, art, and unguarded ease arrive almost without invitation. Use it. The lunar eclipse on 7 November draws a line under what you've kept out of loyalty and what you've kept out of love. By the end of the quarter you'll know which is which, and acting on it becomes possible.
10sep
22oct
07nov
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Dec — Feb
A drawing-in — quiet, reflective, generative.
Outer planets quiet. The fourth house, your floor, takes its turn — sleep, home, the people you wake up beside. Mercury retrograde in your third asks you to re-edit a long-held belief. The year ends where solar returns always end: at the doorstep of the next one. The journal entries written in this quarter will read like prophecies in March.
12dec
21jan
14feb
L
Light — engraved print
Roman quarter mark · italic theme · key dates in Cormorant
Solar Return · 2026
StarBind
vi
The return year in four movements
Four quarters,
four atmospheres.
i
Mar — May
A first inhalation — the new chart settles in.
The return Sun stations in your eleventh house and Jupiter trines it from the third — meaning your social field opens before your inner life catches up. Expect new acquaintances, group projects, and a slight sense of being carried forward without choosing the direction. Don't choose yet. Let the year introduce itself.
14mar
02apr
19may
ii
Jun — Aug
The work surfaces — body, routines, and craft.
Mars enters the sixth and stays. The pleasant openness of the first quarter narrows to a daily question: what am I actually building? A practice — physical or creative or both — wants to become regular. Saturn at the descendant tests partnerships in late July; structures that have outlived their purpose will not survive the month gracefully.
11jun
24jul
17aug
iii
Sep — Nov
A flowering — the year's highest signal.
Venus and Jupiter conjoin in your fifth in early September — affection, art, and unguarded ease arrive almost without invitation. Use it. The lunar eclipse on 7 November draws a line under what you've kept out of loyalty and what you've kept out of love. By the end of the quarter you'll know which is which, and acting on it becomes possible.
10sep
22oct
07nov
iv
Dec — Feb
A drawing-in — quiet, reflective, generative.
Outer planets quiet. The fourth house, your floor, takes its turn — sleep, home, the people you wake up beside. Mercury retrograde in your third asks you to re-edit a long-held belief. The year ends where solar returns always end: at the doorstep of the next one. The journal entries written in this quarter will read like prophecies in March.
12dec
21jan
14feb
D
Dark — observatory logbook
Same composition on midnight stock