Transits and Solar Returns is a uniquely useful tool for interpreting transits to the birth chart and the annual solar return. Included are extensive sections that delineate the transits in the houses and in aspect to all of the other planets, both harmonious of dissonant, as well as delineation of all of the planets in all of the solar return houses. The book begins with the author's Thirty Rules for interpreting transits and solar returns. These rules, which go beyond many of those found in other books, are based on the author's extensive experience and research. These rules of interpreting function as a practical how-to for reading transits and solar returns using a step-by-step method that's easy to follow and implement. There are numerous examples to illustrate the author's interpretation method Useful and extensive appendices offer guidelines for solar return interpretation and relocation on the birthday in order to maximize positive planetary placements and minimize the negative.

The book covers everything you need to know about interpreting Solar Return charts. There are interpretations of each planet in every house and expanded interpretations of planets in aspects. Mary Shea gives a complete description of positive and negative possibilities. Interpretations include all life events and situations.

In the opinion of the Author this book should be studied together with the other, titled “Transits and Solar Returns”, because this one is, over all, about the technique of Solar Returns, starting from the meaning of a Solar Return and continuing with the calculations to get a SR (Solar Return), and a lot of related technical problems like: “By What Strength a Solar Return Works”, “Which Place You Should Consider to Calculate a Solar Return”, “Long and Short Ascension Signs”, “How to Make Manual Calculations”, “What is the Annual Progression of Sidereal Time”, “From When to When a Solar Return Works”, “How Long it Is Necessary to Remain in the SR Location”, “What Happens if the Time Zone Changes”, “The Results of the Last Researches”. For example, in the latter, we read: “Remember that Saturn is always stronger than Jupiter or Venus or the Sun. So, if you place, in a SR chart, a Saturn close to Midheaven and contemporarily you place Jupiter or Venus exactly joined to Midheaven, your SR Tenth House will work as Saturn works and not as Jupiter or Venus”.In the book there are also sixty examples of Solar Returns in order to explain, in a very practical way, all the theory and the interpretations contained here (“The Ascendant of the SR in the Radix Houses”, “Celestials in the SR Houses”, etc.). It is the first full-length volume by Ciro Discepolo about Solar Returns and it has been revised many times since 1993 to the present.

Your birth chart is a snapshot of the sky taken at the moment and place of your birth, one that reflects your character, personality, strengths, and challenges. But the moment after that picture was taken, the planets moved on--some quickly, some very slowly. Astrologers call the moving planets "transits," and by comparing their movements to your birth chart you can gain a complete view of how best to prepare for challenges, meet opportunities, and stay grounded in a constantly-changing world. In Astrological Transits, astrologer April Elliott Kent will guide you through the best ways to make the most of your birth chart. Learn how to make the most of good transits and harness and transform the energy of "bad" ones. You'll also understand planetary cycles and anticipate your own transits. Finally, you'll know how to read planetary return charts, work with planetary retrogrades, and use eclipses to recognize major patterns and turning points in your life. If you are comfortable reading a birth chart, you are ready to move your chart into the future using transits. Instructions, tables, and worksheets will make tracking your transit cycles simple and exciting!

Did you know that every birthday the universe gifts you a new astrological chart that allows you to discover where your life is headed for the next twelve months? All you have to do is decode your Solar Return Chart to take control of events - and in this book, Sara Shipman tells you how.Solar Returns are one of the best tools of predictive astrology - and all the best tools are simple to use. In this book, Sara Shipman introduces you to solar return chart interpretation using a 'keywords' approach to analysing the planets, houses and the rising sign in your solar return chart. To keep things simple, Sara bases her chart analyses in this book on four main questions, what, when, where and how? The answers to those questions are written in your stars.In this book, Sara explains what a solar return forecast is, how it works and why it's different from your natal chart. She explains how solar returns work in cycles and looks at the question of timing your forecast. When can you expect to notice your new solar return chart taking effect? Is it an immediate and noticeable change or does the new chart overlap with the previous year's chart? These, and many other questions will be answered by Sara's in depth analysis of the planets, retrograde planets and astrological houses in your solar return chart. Sara also looks carefully at the importance of the rising sign in your solar return chart and examines how it affects your approach to life during the year. The main objective of this book is, however, to provide you with the resources to begin making your own interpretations. So to simplify matters, each section of the book has keywords lists to point you towards the range of possibilities open to you when interpreting your solar return chart.Sara Shipman is an astrologer, blogger and writer who owns and edits the astrology website starcrazypie.com

In this indispensable astrology book, Noel Tyl presents the definitive study of astrology's most accurate prediction system. The first major presentation of Solar Arc theory and practice in the English language, this book offers the entire application spectrum of Solar Arcs, dramatized in numerous case studies. Tyl explains the theory behind Solar Arcs from their inception in ancient times to their present-day articulation in rich, psychodynamic natal analyses. He also focuses on their quintessential importance to modern rectification methodology, the divining of unknown birth times. Finally, he shows you how to maximize computer software support to produce definitive results. Learn the developmental history of the Solar Arc method Identify important development times in anyone's life, at a glance Explore the timing power of Tertiary Progressions Follow step-by-step rectification methods Use the 100-year Quick Glance Ephemeris Acquire knowledge of 1,130 possible Natal and Solar Arc Midpoint pictures Solar Arcs reveals the immense power of today's fastest growing astrological method. Written for the advancing student and the professional astrologer, Noel Tyl's work will transform the way you practice astrology.