Today is less than a week before a 58th Solar Return and nearly 12 years since the birthday gift astrology reading — second ever formal reading — which unwittingly coincided with an eclipse. The Egyptian-specialist reader found digitally through a Nashville-based tour business and consulted via landline pointed out the eclipse and suggested astrology as a hobby/study. Shrugged off with a laugh then, interest kicked in three months later, initially for Jeffrey Wolf Green’s style of evolutionary astrology.
Thus, this is a Jupiter Return of that Solar Return.
Of all these 58 Solar Returns, in retrospect only one was immediately noticeable as a dramatic shift: the summer of 1979 and specifically during a run (on road, not beach) in Ocean City, Maryland. The energy and focus which began then, ended a few months later during the month of November 1979 alongside a sense of doom interpreted by others as post-season letdown and adolescent depression. What it felt like was a physical current along that I-270 Corridor where dozens of miles had been logged, and included:
November 4: start of Iran hostage crisis
November 7: Ted Kennedy announcing challenge to President Carter
November 9: Nuclear false alarm cancelled at Fort Ritchie, Maryland
November 13: Ronald Reagan announcing (third) presidential bid
Solar Return 1979:
Jupiter 15° 03′ conjunct Midheaven 16° 10′ Leo
Mars 17° 49′ Gemini (8th) opposite Neptune 18° 08′ Rx Sagittarius
Scorpio 2° 16′ rising
Solar Return 2009:
Chiron 24° 59′ Rx, Jupiter 25° 06′ Rx, Neptune 25° 48′ Rx Aquarius (2nd)
Capricorn 5° 48′ rising
Solar Return 2021:
Juno 8° 50′ Rx conjunct Sagittarius 8° 34′ rising
Jupiter 0° 47′ Rx Pisces
Method: natal place reference, whole signs
Thursday, July 15, 2021, 11:41 CDT:
Chiron 12° 56′ Aries station Rx
Image: “This illustration uses data obtained by NASA's Juno mission to depict high-altitude electrical storms on Jupiter. Juno's sensitive Stellar Reference Unit camera detected unusual lightning flashes on Jupiter's dark side during the spacecraft's close flybys of the planet.” Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ MSSS/ Gerald Eichstädt