posted February 07, 2012 11:29 AM            

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Originally posted by appleberry:
Is this why you shouldn't do it until your actual birthday..... because you can't be 100% certain where you will be... even if it's just a short journey away like a vacation?

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Well only if you travel loads. short journeys will not affect it by hardly anything. Plus you should remember that SR are not meant to be read as stand alones but around the outside of natal.

Just select natal + solar return with houses.

All solar returns (and natal charts) are about ‘potential’ as is the natal chart, but we don’t always fulfil our potential, whether it’s due to ‘other people or unforeseen circumstances’ or a choice of two things and maybe possibly making different choices meant you didn’t fulfil that potential in this Solar return.

I don't read SR's as stand alone cos you can get far more information from bi wheel, it can give a natal planet an opening or expression by conjuncting SR Asc or MC for example and any SR planets conj natal planets are important to.

when selecting a solar return chart from astro in Extended chart selection it's important to select 2nd option 'with houses' as this will put the degree onto planets and Angles --
http://cafeastrology.com/interpretingsolarreturns.html http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17763 http://wiki.astro.com/astrowiki/en/Solar_Return_Chart http://www.maryshea.com/sr.html http://www.skyviewzone.com/solarreturn.htm

“The house in which the Sun falls in the SR chart is the birthday month's forecast and influence, and each house after is the following month, since the Sun transits at the rate of one sign or house per month. Each house is treated as events in that month, and the sign and planet ruling the cusp influences the outlook for that month. The chart is used like a clock, writh 12 months on its face instead of 12 hours. As the Sun conjoins or aspects other planets in the SR, it will generate events” http://www.typhonvision.com/art-solarreturn.htm

Lastly, for something 'major' to happen, it should also be reflected in your transits, progressions and possibly solar arcs. So don't ignore these methods in favour of JUST solar returns