As you become more proficient with astrology, you can graduate from just focusing on aspects, transits, and lunations and move on to other techniques like Returns. One Return that you can focus on every month is a Lunar Return.
What is a Lunar Return?
A return occurs when a transit planet returns to the exact position it was at in the Zodiac when you were born. Lunar Returns are returns of the Moon, and they occur about once every month.
At a glance, you know you’ll experience a Lunar Return when you see the transit Moon is in your Moon sign. You may notice that your emotions are more heightened, yet you can feel more at ease with your emotional self. This is because of your Lunar Return, which impacts you emotionally, and can trigger events, so this is often a period of developments in various areas of life as well. The Lunar Return Chart
You can create a Lunar Return chart for your Lunar Return, and this chart can tell you what your emotional focus may be for the next month, until your next Lunar Return.
The main area of focus is found in the house where the Moon is located in the return chart. This tends to be the area where you’re emotionally focused, and can experience developments in your life that impact you emotionally. You can also express yourself emotionally more like a natal Moon would in that house. Make sure to check out the article, Lunar Return Chart Moon in the Houses. I find that the Lunar Returns with the biggest impact tend to be the ones where the Moon is conjunct, or aligned with, one of the house cusps, which is the very beginning of a house. The sign the Ascendant (1st house cusp) is in can seep a little into your personality while the return chart is in effect, and you can also focus more on the areas of life ruled by the sign. And the house cusp that has Cancer on it, the sign the Moon naturally rules, can also have more emotional focus and attention or developments. Make sure to check out the article, Lunar Return Chart Ascendant, for the Ascendant in the signs. You can create a Lunar Return chart for free using astro.com. Add in your birth data, go to Free Horoscopes > Extended Chart Selection > select Lunar return chart from the dropdown menu, and generate. The Lunar Return chart that is generated will be for your most recent Lunar Return. If you want to create Lunar Return charts for other dates, just change the date on the Extended Chart Selection page to whatever date/month/year you want. Lunar Returns on New and Full Moons
If your Lunar Return occurs on the same day as a New Moon, this means the New Moon occurs in your Lunar Return chart, and you can experience a period that’s favorable for starting something new, and you can be more energized by your emotions and emotionally enthusiastic.
The house location in the return chart for the New Moon tends to show where in your life this can manifest. Even when a New Moon doesn’t occur on your Lunar Return day, but is simply in the same sign as your natal Moon, you can be more positive and emotionally focused on what you want to get going with. This is seen as quite beneficial. If your Lunar Return occurs on the same day as a Full Moon, this means the Full Moon occurs in your Lunar Return chart, and you can experience a period that’s favorable for reaping what you’ve sown. You can experience rewards for hard and smart work and this helps you to feel more fulfilled emotionally, or you can experience setbacks and delays for laziness and irresponsibility, which can make you feel more down and out. The house location in the return chart for the Full Moon tends to show where in your life this can manifest. Full Moons are more emotional anyway, so your emotions can be much stronger and you may need to find an outlet for what you’re feeling, even if you’re feeling good. Even when a Full Moon doesn’t occur on your Lunar Return day, but is simply in the same sign as your natal Moon, you can be more emotional and sensitive. Suggested Reading: Lunar Returns & The Moon in Solar Return Charts Comments are closed.
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