The Soli-Lunar and Luni-Solar (SL-LS) charts

The Soli-Lunar and Luni-Solar charts

The Sidereal astrological community has long been utilizing the Return charts for prognostics in the realm of individual/natal astrology. Since Fagan’s time onward, the way these Return charts have been, as a tool, used is by: calculating when a given Light (the Sun or the Moon) comes to the same zodiac position (the degree, minute and second of arc in longitude) as it has been at the moment of person’s birth, and looking at the main factors of the chart thus obtained (the angularity, and the aspects between planets). We know these as the Solar and the Lunar return charts, pertaining to the annual and monthly tide of individual’s life, respectively.

The two Lights in astrology symbolically represent the two eyes of the human visual-perception (our capacity for Seeing); each complements the other, and, in accordance to our inherent natural structuring in this regard, for direct Looking and most clear, precise Seeing, the natural healthy human condition requires simultaneous use of both eyes.

While we certainly can use only one of the Pair of Eyes at a time, and thus perform the observation (the operations of Looking, intent toward Seeing), there’s only so much that we can See by doing so, and the quality of what we’re able to observe in this manner is, naturally, limited.

The Solar return and the Lunar return, as they have been so far most commonly used within the modern-day Sidereal tradition, represent this kind of partial and limited viewing: calculated for the moment of time-space which represents the Luminary body’s (that of the Sun or of the Moon) relationship with itself, as tools, these charts provide only segmentary information about the pertinent, annual or monthly, individual person’s tides. -- Much like the Venus Return, or the Mars return, etc, these charts simply portray the rhythms of individual development and experience pertinent to the given Luminary they're the Return-chart of, the Solar return pertaining to the individual development of the Solar ergie within the psyche, and the Lunar return to the Lunar ergie.

These charts being one major tool in our astrological toolkit for Understanding the individual experience on the level of annual and monthly rhythms, and, from observation and knowledge thus gained, developing the ability to accurately prognosticate based upon their use (foresee the exact quality/nature of periods in advance, and with unfaltering precision in this), the ancient Science of Astrology is still, even today, within the realm of obscurity: by utilizing this tool in a way that is enabling us to only partially Look and See, using only a single eye, of our pair of eyes, at a time, instead the pair of them simultaneously together, we have not been able to in such a way establish our efforts as to get this, truly the oldest scientific endeavor of human there is, to its proper place.

The Annual and Monthly Period-charts which “utilize both eyes simultaneously” (to keep this simple and direct visual metaphor) are the charts when each of the two Luminary bodies comes to the other’s position in the zodiac:

---> when the Sun, in its movement, comes to the exact place in the zodiac where the person’s own Moon is (of the natal chart), this is the Soli-Lunar chart, depicting the individual’s experience on the annual-tide-level;

---> when the Moon, in its movement, comes to the exact zodiac location where the person’s natal Sun is, this is the Luni-Solar chart, depicting the person’s experience on the monthly-tide-level.

(In practice, the monthly charts operate on the bi-weekly level, so by calculating both the chart for the moment of Moon’s conjunction, and another for its opposition to the person’s natal Sun, we get to see this Luni-Solar’s tide in more details, and are able to give more fine-tuned information when it comes to timing of events, alongside with predicting the type/nature/kind of person’s experience.)

The general approach in how we look into these charts is pretty simple: we consider the Angularity of planets involved, and their mutual aspects (the unique connections and the clusterings/groupings); we take into account: the orb of the Angularity of planets involved, and the whole picture obtained from a specific combination of planets “active” (prominently present) in the given return chart. The distinction between transiting and natal planets is a factor of key interpretative importance.

By taking these factors into consideration, we get from each chart a unique picture, such that provides the description of the essential quality/nature of the person’s experience for the time-period that the chart applies to.

Together with utilizing the tool-kit of Transits to the Natal, and the progressions of the Natal-chart (the Solar Arc, and the Secondary Progressions, as the two basic techniques which have proven themselves to be the “bare essentials” of indispensable astrologer’s prognosticating “equipment”), this tool of the Soli-Lunar and Luni-Solar returns allows us to “foresee” the events in individual’s life with accuracy of timing and of the description of nature/quality of experience that otherwise (by utilizing the more familiar/popularly-known Solar & Lunar returns, in combination with the transits+progressions toolkit) we can not achieve.

With the aim of shedding more light in the practical sense on the how of approaching these charts, I’ll be posting examples, here on the blog, for different events/personal-experiences of popularly known people.

[February/March 2022]
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Some notes on Interpretation of the LS charts: [ September 23rd, 2022]

--> The whole of the combination of included angular planets depicts the main themes (experiences and events) of the period; within this, the orbs show what is most-focalized. --> When the same themes (particular combos of angular planets) of a SL get repeated during a monthly/bi-weekly chart, this shows up to be significant, regardless of how tight are the orbs. --> The clusterings are important: >> if there's a pair of tr planets, for example, both angular with a wider orb (say, 8* from Major angle-axis), but they are tightly in aspect with each other (cnj/opp/sq within 1*, either eclipto or mundo), this forms an emphasizedly-important part of the whole picture of angularity, although there may also be other factors present with closer angular proximity; >> if two (or more) of foreground present planets form a MidPoint structure with a Major angle, even if their orb is wider, the particular combination of planets included will have something of pronounced importance to say, in the whole picture. --> When there is nothing natal angular, and the tr angularity is strong by orb, it speaks of the whole of psyche being affected by what's going on during the period (not one or another specific ergie of the person are coming to the fore, but the whole of it is in some way "absorbed", or "drawn in" or "overwhelmed" - depending of the tr combo, each case is different - simply, in a particular way called-for-being-present). Also, when there's nothing tr angular, and there are rx angular planets very sharp in the fore, the same goes, but the other way around: the specific ergies are being expressed, in a highly-focalized manner, from the Natus' own side; this doesn't indicate "nothing is happening" from the environmental side - rather, what is happening isn't such that one or another particular factor, or their unique combination, is being emphasized, while what is emphasized (gets to the fore of experience/events/expression) is something from the "side" of the Natus themselves. --> When multiple factors are simultaneously present with very tight proximity-to-angle orb, these depict a theme (together, the combination of them) that is being highly emphasized during the period.

--> One month or two weeks, by themselves, never bring something that is "independent from" or unrelated-to the wider context; >> a single harsh/challenging LS within a context of a year differently themed, and during a period when the pSL Moon, the Sec. prog. of radix, and the wider transits don't indicate something of similar kind, won't bring anything more but a "temporary unpleasantness" (of the nature/quality depicted by the combination of planets included); >> the monthly/bi-weekly periods alone, by themselves, are not to be taken as indicators of "outstanding", or "highly significant" events; the whole picture of the currently-active wider-tides needs to be considered, for accurately determining in advance the time of such events.