Your Solar Return & Transcending Your Fate
There is an emphasis this year on making spirituality your number one priority — and, without question, a most auspicious tool to support your success in bringing that goal into focus on a day-to-day basis is to receive your Solar Return Chart Reading.
It is a chart reading based on the moment every year — on your birthday, give or take a day — when the sun returns to the same exact point where it was when you took your first breath. While there's a lot of misinterpretation about the definition, or importance — the meaning — applied to the significance of your solar return, fortunately, you’ll find plenty of clarity around this subject in your copy of Zodiac Hacks: Constellations:
“In DASH Astrology (the wisdom behind Zodiac Hacks), our first breath established our birth chart parameters, but to always only refer to this chart will keep us stuck in the past. There is a chart that is cast every year on our birthdays, called a “solar return,” that lays out the challenges and opportunities we are to face in the coming year. We can also use our progressed chart, which shows us how our planets have moved to see the current situations for maximum growth.”
Working with this chart as a spiritual tool is not about fortune-telling, or looking into a crystal ball, to predict how your next year appears to be shaping up, in order to tell you whether your forecast looks good or bad. This is about breaking free of the popular time-based notion of a birthday as a mere cyclical occurrence, and of living your life in repetitive circles altogether.
Once you experience the benefits of this type of chart reading, you’ll never sing the song, “Happy Birthday To You” in quite the same way ever again.
In fact, this is one of the most magical, powerful birthday gifts you can give to yourself and to others — a gift that allows you to make every day, not just that one day, a special celebration of life — filled with endless possibilities, challenges, and countless blessings — as you are able to proactively work, in the spirit of complete self-responsibility, as a co-creator with God, to transcend your fate.
Consider this amazing testimonial —
“Arik did my solar return reading, and it has already changed my life. One of the things we talked about was that I was feeling intimidated by groups of men in my new neighborhood who are congregating on sidewalks and glaring at me in a hostile and predatory manner. And it wasn’t my imagination — my husband saw it too, not just aimed at me but at women in general in our neighborhood. It got to a point where I was constantly vigilant and crossing streets to avoid them, and finally I just started taking public transportation to the park instead of walking to it, which really irked me. Since one of the things that Arik said my solar return chart is urging me to do is become fearless, he helped me to see this situation as a valuable opportunity to shed this fear. After ascertaining that I am certain I’m not in any actual physical danger, aside from the fact that I live in one of the safest cities in the world, Arik suggested that I might start, little by little, maybe once or twice a week, to try and reclaim my daily walks and focus on being confident, strong, unintimidated, and radiate love from within as I walk in my neighborhood. He also said he saw in the chart that my anger at these men and my fear is also related to unresolved issues with my father.
As if the prospect of not being afraid to walk around my own neighborhood weren’t a strong enough incentive, Arik also told me that this is going to be a good year for money if I can shed my fears. The next day, I marshaled my courage, told myself I was safe, connected with my essential self, reminded myself that these men I’ve been so intimidated by are human beings acting out their own pain, and went for a walk. Instantly it was like a different neighborhood. I didn’t get triggered one bit. I didn’t even see anyone being hostile or intimidating. The next day I took it one step further and started looking at my father issues and realized that even with all the work I have done around my father, there were still unexplored layers to clean up. And looking at that made me see how much anger I still had at men in general. So I started cleaning that up with atonement, which BTW is on Arik’s site for anyone to use. And I know this is going to sound crazy, but by the end of these two days I felt like I had entered a parallel universe. I am no longer living in a neighborhood where men are intimidating, hostile, and predatory (and no, I haven’t moved away LOL). I am courageous, confident, and fearless (armored with love instead of anger) as I walk to the park and run errands. And no one messes with me. I owe this all to Arik. Thank you so much, Arik! I haven’t even listened yet to the recording of my session, and look how much your reading has transformed my reality.”
There are actually two types of chart readings you’ll want to integrate into your journey around the Sun — the Solar Return Chart Reading, that comes around the time of your birthday — and, also, the half-birthday reading, to become aware of the Transits and Progressions that are affecting you today — to help you review, update, and adjust or change your course. You’ll also want to find out more about having your solar return — and how to bring true happiness to all birthdays everywhere — by reading the passage that’s titled Reincarnation Is Not Rebirth, in the Aries section of your Zodiac Hacks: Constellations book.