Solar Return Chart — Discover Your Year Ahead with AI

Every sign spans thirty degrees and splits into three ten-degree decans, each with its own ruler under the Chaldean order and its own Minor Arcana card. Where you fall inside Scorpio is a real distinction, and it is the first thing a solar return chart makes visible.

Scorpio was ruled by Pluto for roughly two thousand years before Pluto was discovered in 1930. Most modern sources give Pluto and stop there; the older attribution did not become wrong, and the decan table this site runs on is built on the seven classical bodies, so Pluto is what the rows below your chart will name.

Scorpio has two rulers in current use and this site reads the traditional one, Mars, because the decan table the whole site runs on is built on the seven classical bodies. That is not a dismissal of Pluto; it is a consistency requirement. In a solar return the Martian reading of Scorpio is about sustained pressure rather than sudden initiative — the same planet as Aries, applied to a fixed water sign, which produces persistence where Aries produces impulse.

Mars stations retrograde roughly once every two years, so most Scorpio solar returns contain none at all, and then one does. That rarity is worth knowing in advance because it changes the year materially: a retrograde Mars in a Scorpio return usually describes effort redirected at something already underway rather than at anything new. The dates below tell you whether the year ahead is one of the rare ones.

Scorpio’s decans are Mars, the Sun and Venus — the same three as Aries, in the same order, because both signs share a ruler and the Chaldean sequence runs continuously. The first decan is the doubled one: Mars ruling both sign and decan, which is the most concentrated ten degrees of Martian force in the zodiac after the first decan of Aries. The Five of Cups sits here, a card about what has been lost, and the combination is as uncomfortable as it sounds.

The second decan is the Sun, and it produces a markedly more visible Scorpio — the one whose intensity is apparent rather than concealed, which runs against the sign’s reputation for privacy. The third is Venus, and it is the gentlest ten degrees of Scorpio by some distance: attachment rather than force, the Seven of Cups, a decan about wanting rather than about pursuing. Three Scorpios from three different decans will not recognise each other in the same description.

Scorpio holds the middle of northern autumn. The cross-quarter festival of Samhain falls when the Sun reaches about fifteen degrees of Scorpio, the halfway point between the September equinox and the December solstice, and the other three fixed signs hold the other three midpoints in exactly the same way. That the four surviving Celtic fire festivals all land in the fixed signs is the strongest evidence that the modalities described positions in the year before they described temperaments. For your solar return it means the chart is cast at a structurally stable point rather than at a turn, which fits a fixed sign and is worth weighing against any return chart that looks like it is describing an abrupt change.

Your solar return falls between the third week of October and the third week of November: deep northern autumn, the darkest stretch before the solstice, and traditionally the part of the year most associated with the material Scorpio is identified with. That is a coincidence of symbolism rather than a mechanism, and it is worth saying so plainly — but the practical half is real. Your return is cast in a period with few institutional resets around it, so nothing external prompts you to read it, which is the main reason Scorpio returns go unexamined.

The decan dates above are computed for the stated year rather than taken from the usual rounded range. If your birthday falls within a day of either boundary, the exact instant is what settles the sign; at the Libra end in particular the difference is between a Venus-ruled chart and a Mars-ruled one, which changes the reading of this entire page.

Read the eighth house of the return, then the second, and read them as a pair. The eighth is Scorpio’s own and it covers what is shared, owed or held jointly; the second is what is held alone. For most signs this axis is one theme among many. For a Scorpio Sun a solar return that loads either end is usually describing the year’s actual subject, and the two houses answer to each other.

Then find Mars by house, and note that for you a quiet Mars is informative rather than empty. Scorpio is a fixed sign, and fixed-sign years more often describe a continuation than a turn; a return chart that does not put Mars under pressure is usually telling you the year is consolidation rather than that nothing happens in it.

Between 2024 and 2030 there is not a single eclipse in Scorpio. That is not an omission: eclipses can only happen within about eighteen degrees of a lunar node, the nodal axis takes roughly nineteen years to travel the whole zodiac, and in this span it is simply somewhere else.

There is no eclipse in Scorpio anywhere in this span, and that is a real answer rather than a missing section. Eclipses happen only within about eighteen degrees of a lunar node, the nodal axis takes roughly nineteen years to cross the whole zodiac, and in these seven years it is elsewhere. The practical reading is that the most datable thing in a Scorpio year is not an eclipse but the Mars cycle above.

Your ruler stations retrograde 3 times between 2024 and 2030 — about 0.5 periods a year. That rate is a fact about orbital geometry rather than about you, and it is the single biggest difference between one sign and another here: a Mercury-ruled sign sees its ruler reverse roughly three times a year, a Mars-ruled one waits about two years between.

The first of those inside the measured span runs from December 6, 2024 to February 24, 2025 — real station dates you can check against any ephemeris, not an estimate.