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Solar Return Calculator
Find the exact moment in a selected year when the transiting Sun returns to your natal tropical longitude. The result includes the clock time and all ten planet positions at the return—without pretending that a birthday at the same local hour is exact.
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How the solar return is calculated
First the calculator finds the Sun's apparent geocentric ecliptic longitude at birth. It then searches the birthday window in the selected year for the instant the transiting Sun reaches that same longitude. Because calendar years and Earth's orbit do not have identical lengths, the return can fall before or after the birth clock time—and occasionally on the neighbouring civil date.
Global instant
The astronomical return happens at one UTC instant everywhere on Earth.
Local clock
Your entered offset converts that instant for display; it does not change the return itself.
Houses need place
A house-based solar-return chart also needs the location where the return is experienced. This page does not invent it.
Solar-return meanings belong to astrological tradition and cannot guarantee the events of a year. Treat the chart as a reflective annual theme, never as a reason to delay medical, legal, financial or safety decisions.