posted October 28, 2008 11:22 PM         

Wish you the very best Solar return.

posted October 29, 2008 01:27 AM         

I just read your reply to my other thread asking for your advice and I know this will not be an easy time unless your beloved lady gets in contact with you and comfort your injured soul. I know you've been through hard times in the recent months and it can really make quite an impact on a prodominantly water natal placement individual. Still, I wish you all the best with your solar return. With or without what you're hoping to happen, make the best of your solar return.

posted October 29, 2008 05:45 AM         

I hope that your day is filled with happiness! You're a gem!

posted October 29, 2008 09:23 AM         

My love goes out to you during this difficult time. I know it may be hard to see the positive right now, but today is the anniversary of the day you were born, and that is something beautiful in an of itself. It should be celebrated. I am grateful to have had my life touched by you, and I'm sure many of the Knowflakes here feel exactly the same.

Things will work itself out. I don't even want to get myself started on how extremist, know-it-all mothers should keep their large noses out of their children's business, and let them live their own life and make their own choices, so that is all I will say on that subject. But I hope your ex-girlfriend contacts you today. I hate to imagine that you will allow the mood of your day to rely solely upon that though. I'm sure the sun is shining in California, and the weather is probably beautiful. Hopefully you have friends and family surrounding you today, as proof that there is love in many forms all around you.

Stay positive!

posted October 29, 2008 03:38 PM         

Well...I think that I am going to have a very significant 12 month period,and it looks there are good things in store.

I picked out a card out of my Enchanted World Tarot deck morning of Solar Return yesterday in regards to my questioning of what is the primary focus of my new 12 month cycle, and it happened to be the 4TH OF WANDS

Message: You need to ceremoniously acknowledge and celebrate the completion of an important course of action. Give thanks for friendship and other good things in your life. Enjoy mutual support with another. Feel complete

Outcome: You will enjoy satisfaction from the completion of an important course of action. Your hard work will pay off. Proven partners will come through. Appropriate tokens of appreciation can be exchanged to honor what has been achieved. An important date is coming up.

as for Themes of my Solar Return period

You can use this method in your own Solar Return chart as well as the Lunar Return chart

by checking:
1.the ascendant and aspects
2. the ascendant ruler's sign/house placement and aspects, 3. Sun's house placement and aspects
4. Moon's sign/house placement and aspects
5. natal planets/angles/nodes/vertex conjunct solar return planets/angles/nodes/vertex in houses
6. symmetrical geometric aspect patterns
7. hemisphere emphasis
8. quadrant emphasis
9. element emphasis
10. any stelliums(3 or more planets)if any
11. planets in house aspecting the ruler of that house if any

I only use the Luminaries,Planets,Lunar Nodes,and Vertex to just keep it simple (the main stuff is always important....the minor planets(asteroids,centaurs,kuiper belt objects) are more about finetuning)....my Virgo Ascendant showing...huh? hahahahaha

Orbs:
Conjunction - 8 degrees
Opposition - 8 degrees
Trines - 6 degrees
Squares - 6 degrees
Sextiles - 4 degrees
Quincunxes - 3 degrees
Semisextiles - 2 degrees
Semisquares - 2 degrees
Sesquiquadrates - 2 degrees

Virgo Ascendant - the year oriented toward health,service,organization - same as my natal ascendant, and so it's a significant period.
sextile Sun in 3rd - works well with self expression,vitality in communications,travel

Ascendant Ruler (Mercury) in Libra in 2nd - focus on relationships,partnerships in areas of security,possessions
square Jupiter in 5th - 2'23 in friction with expansion,optimism in self expression,romance
trine Neptune in 6th - 2'46 - in harmony with inspiration,idealism in health,service,daily routine
Trine North Lunar Node in 6th - in harmony with connections,destiny in health,service,daily routine
semisextile Saturn in 1st - '25 works somewhat well with discipline,structure in self,personality
quincunx Uranus in 7th - '24 - in strain with change,independence in relationships,partnerships

12th house effectively brought to the Ascendant - self,personality affected by solitude,selfless service...can be a very karmic period

Sun in 3rd - a year highlighting commmunications,travel
conjunct Moon in 3rd - 6'28 - merge with emotions,feelings,domestic,women in communications,travel
sextile Ascendant/trine Descendant - '15 - works well with self,personality and in harmony with relationships,partnerships
square Vertex in 5th - 5'03 - in friction with fated relationships in self expression,romance
sesquiquadrate Uranus in 7th - 1'13 - frustrations with change,independence in relationships

Moon in Libra in 3rd - emotional focus on relationships,partnerships in areas of communications,travel
conjunct Sun in 3rd - 6'28 - merge with self expression,vitality in communications,travel
square Vertex in 5th - 1'24 - in friction with fated relationships in self expression,romance
sextile Pluto in 4th - '14 works well with intensity,transformation in domestic environment
quincunx Midheaven - 2'59 - in strain with social status,career

Natal Ascendant conjunct Solar Return Ascendant (same as Natal Descendant conjunct Solar Return Descendant) - 7'51 - strong emphasis on self,personality,relationships,partnerships

Natal North Lunar Node conjunct Solar Return North Lunar Node (same as Natal South Lunar Node conjunct Natal South Lunar Node) - 4'33 - strong emphasis on destiny,meetings

Natal Moon in 6th conjunct Solar Return Descendant - 2'24 -emotions,feelings in health,service,daily routine merge with relationships,partnerships.. relationships with women

Natal Neptune in 3rd conjunct Solar Return Imum Coeli - '03 -inspiration,idealism in communications,travel merge with domestic environment,unconscious... can be confusion in the home but could be spiritual emotional foundation

Natal Jupiter in 3rd conjunct Solar Return Imum Coeli - 6'25 -expansion,optimism in communications,travel merge with domestic environment ...can be indulgence but could be philosophical emotional foundation

Natal Saturn in 9th conjunct Solar Return Midheaven - 3'16 -discipline,structure in philosophy,long distance travel merge with social status...can be restriction but could be realistic ambitions

Solar Return Venus in 4th conjunct Natal Imum Coeli - '25 - love,relationships in domestic environment.. can be frivolous but could be harmonious emotional foundation

Solar Return Mercury conjunct Natal Uranus in 2nd - 3'24 -communications,mental processes merge with change,liberation in security,possessions ...can be restless,but also innovative mind

Solar Return Mars conjunct Natal Venus in 3rd - 5'10 -passion,assertiveness merge with involve love,relationships in communications,travel...can be pushy in relationships, but also passionate lover

Solar Return Mars conjunct Natal Mercury in 3rd - 1'43 -passion,assertiveness merge with communications,mental processes in communications and travel...can be argumentative, but also direct in communications

Solar Return Venus conjunct Natal Jupiter in 3rd - 3'22 -love,relationships merge with expansion,optimism in communications,travel...can be indulgent in love, but also generous

Solar Return North Lunar Node conjunct Natal Vertex in 5th - '04 -connections,destiny merge with fated relationships in self expression,romance...a fateful,destined meeting,connection

I also look at Aspect Patterns because they can show strong themes....it's good to consider the geometrical patterns to avoid isolating single aspects....it's good to see the big picture

ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID (is a quadrilateral with a line of symmetry bisecting one pair of opposite sides, making it automatically a trapezoid. Two opposite sides are parallel, the two other sides are of equal length. The diagonals are of equal length.)
Saturn in 1st oppose Uranus in 7th, and Mars in 3rd sextiles Saturn/trine Uranus,Jupiter in 5th trines Saturn/sextile Uranus - seems like a strong emphasis on structured,disciplined personality,self at odds with independence,change in relationships,partnerships that can be eased by assertive,passionate communications,travel and expansive,optimistic self expression,romance - in other words, if I am having stress and tension, communicate it with the partner and resolve it by engaging in physical activity and having fun

STRONG NORTHERN HEMISPHERE EMPHASIS - focusing on the internal world

QUADRANT EMPHASIS - 1st (emphasis on self development and improvement) and 2nd (achieving personality integration and individualization while still maintaining strong relationships with family,lovers,and co-workers)

ELEMENT - balanced

STELLIUMS - Sun,Moon,and Mars in 3rd - strong emphasis on communications,travel

Planet(Jupiter in Capricorn) in 5th house trine 5th house Ruler(Saturn in Virgo) - areas of self expression,romance strongly fortified