posted February 06, 2018 12:27 PM
I wouldn't let it influence my feelings at all. Instead, I'd watch the slower transits to natal points and understand their processes in personal development, because their lessons and urges are unavoidable and extend beyond a single year. For example, Pluto's transit conjunct your natal Neptune and Venus. That is a process of at least a few years of learning heightened, transformative love. That is a major process and lasts much longer than one year. Understanding that transit alone can make a difference in the next few years of your life.
Neptune transits conjunct your natal Saturn. That too will last longer than a year.
Uranus transits square your natal Neptune-Venus-Uranus, which can be a confusing time of idealism and shifting perceptions. That transit to natal Neptune-Venus has already been in effect for the last year.
As to Jupiter, it was recently square natal Mercury [17 south] and is now parallel it, a good time to expand your mind through learning and conversations that could win you new friends. That window of opportunity extends through April, but the square picks up again in June, continues into August; then the parallel begins again and lasts into October. In all, a really lucky transit combo by Jupiter to your Mercury for a time in which your mind is more flexible and open, your curiosity heightened, your desire to converse with others stimulated. A great transit! If anything, this is where the Jupiter energy comes into play for you now, not in the 9th house of a solar return chart that I can tell you with certainty in your case is inaccurate and misleading.
My point is I've seen so much confusion over solar return charts that is unnecessary -- not confusion as to interpretation, but even its place and relevance. More often than not solar return charts skew perspective through misdirection, with dual sets of houses creating confusion leading to anxiety. What's the point of that?
Robert Hand's book Planets in Transit gives good insights to understand any of the major transits (conjunctions, sextiles, trines, squares, oppositions) by all the planets. It's not an exclusive text. Anyone can buy a used copy for a good price. If you want to understand how your next year will go, understand the growth process you are in and how to handle the energies of the transits that show up in the solar return chart, but will last much longer than 1 year.
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Soul Stars Astrology - by the declinations guy
Declinations: because the planets move north and south of the celestial equator