Scary Solar Return

Osamenor

Staff member
What makes you say this year will be worse?

I would have an easier time interpreting your solar return chart if it were a biwheel, natal + solar return, with the houses for both. You can get that at Astrodienst out of the extended chart menu. If you would also post your 2016 SR chart for comparison, that would be helpful, since you apparently had such a rough year last year.
 

Osamenor

Staff member
Because of the ASC and houses actually I've read some stuff saying that's the worst aspect in the solar return. and 6th house Saturn which i think indicated really bad health.7th house pluto and how bad my relationships are going to be and so on...

If you were reading about solar return house placements, that Saturn in the 6th/Pluto in the 7th stuff meant placements in your solar return houses. Saturn was not in your solar return sixth house, and Pluto was not in your solar return seventh house. Saturn is transiting your natal sixth house, and Pluto is transiting your natal seventh. Both of those planets move so slowly that their transits of any house last for years--about 2 1/2 years for a Saturn house transit, give or take, assuming the house is around 30 degrees, and a decade or two for a Pluto house transit.

But whatever situation you're in, it's not going to last a whole two to twenty years. You are most likely to feel a transit's effects in a house when the planet first enters that house. The rest of the transit is time for adjusting and getting whatever you can out of the results of that transit. And transits are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. You might see the proverbial cloud with silver lining. You might have a good experience connected with a "bad" transit, or a bad experience connected with a "good" transit.

Pluto first crossed your DC and entered your seventh house in late 2013 or early 2014. Saturn has been over your sixth house cusp more than once in the past year: almost a year ago, it stationed retrograde right on your sixth house cusp. After retrograding in your fifth house for many months, Saturn turned direct and crossed your sixth house cusp again around the end of 2016/beginning of 2017. So whatever effects you're going to get from Saturn in the sixth and Pluto in the seventh, you've already experienced them.

You mentioned the end of a relationship in the past year. Pluto has a transformative effect on whatever part of your chart he's transiting, and it starts with exposing the skeletons in the proverbial closet. If Pluto is transiting a relationship house, whatever is weak about a relationship you're in, or about your approach to relationships, is likely to be exposed. If you're in a relationship that isn't built to last, it won't weather the Pluto storm. In the aftermath, you have a chance to reshape and rebuild, perhaps enter a new relationship with a clearer sense of what and who you want, perhaps alter how you approach relationships.

Your solar return takes place in the midst of whatever transits are happening to your natal chart, and whatever is going on in your life. It's just another layer on top of all that. Which houses are highlighted in your solar return chart, and which of your natal houses the solar return AC/DC and MC/IC fall into, tell you something about what's highlighted for you at this moment in time, but it doesn't tell you whether the results will be good or bad.
 
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