posted August 13, 2008 06:30 PM
Try these articles, Vesta.Celeste Teal http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/391
Kim Falconer http://www.falconastrology.com/reading_returns.htm
Mary Fortier Shea (Free SR E-book) http://www.maryshea.com/srebook.html
You may read the return charts like a natal chart, but they do need to be compared to the natal and also the transits for that year. Also, you can look at transits to the return, especially those hitting SR cusps. Natal planets sitting on return angles are important and vice versa. Natal planets rising are important.
Look at the natal house and sign, which come to the return Asc, Des, MC and IC. What natal house contains the SR Asc?
Where the SR Moon is placed by house and sign is where you will see changes.
March and McEvers have a rarely used technique of comparing SR cusp rulerships to natal plants in their prediction book The Only Way to Learn About Tomorrow Vol.IV, which helps to tie in the natal chart more thoroughly.