Simply put, your Solar Return is your true birthday. Knowing the exact timing is very important, because there is a 10 hour window of enormous power available to you then to use toward your own benefit and growth.
At the moment of your birth, as you drew your first breath, the silica in your body was imprinted with the frequency of the positions of the planets at that precise moment. Just like radio crystals or silicon microchips are programmed to a specific frequency, your silica naturally sets itself to the first planetary energies it encounters in that precise moment and place. It’s a blueprint that you carry, encoded in your body.
The exact position of the Sun when you were born is obviously your birthday. Let’s say it was on April 30, 1969, and the Sun was in Taurus at 9° 26min. Each year when the Sun returns to the exact same degree, 9°26, is the peak moment of your Solar Return, hence the name. Because we have leap years, the Solar Return often happens the day before, so without the accurate calculation you miss out on the magic.
Just like hearing a train whistle approaching from a distance, five hours prior to the peak, the silica in your blood and body starts to resonate to the “note” with which it was imprinted. Since silica can be used to amplify thoughts, as your internal silica starts to resonate to its birth frequency and activate, your ability to transmit energy is increased a thousand per cent. As that silica gets “in tune” with the energy frequency of the sun, you get ten hours of power. The five hours approaching, you can feel it building to the peak moment, and then slowly recedes, like the train whistle, for the next five hours. Whatever you focus on, command, do, say, and feel will resonate for the next year, until replaced at your next Solar Return. A ten hour window of opportunity that only comes once a year, with so much potential for effecting the changes you yearn for, is often missed or even wasted.
Solar Return Ceremony
It’s best to know the peak time of your Solar Return a few days or more in advance, so you have a plan for maximizing your ten hours. The most important thing to remember is that the energy or “song” of those hours will echo throughout your year. Avoid situations where you have to do things you don’t like, deal with argumentative or otherwise unsupportive people. If you have to be in an unpleasant situation, try to keep your energy detached from it. Don’t say yes when you want to say no, and vice versa. I remember a year when I had just spun up a strong manifestational energy, and then, as I was leaving my “sacred ground” I discovered I had locked the keys in my car. Great. The locksmith was able to open the door, but for the next year, every door I knocked on stayed closed. Big lesson there…
Make a list of birthday proclamations. These are not prayers or wishes; they are proclamations of gratitude for having whatever you put on your list. Prayers and wishes put the power outside of you, while proclamations of gratitude use the power of the ten hours to claim and manifest your will. It can be anything from the material to the spiritual and beyond, as long as you don’t interfere with anyone’s free will. I like to make two copies of my list- one handwritten for my ceremony, and the other can be a printer copy. Handwriting holds more energy, so use the printer for a back up copy for later reference. Pick a place that holds power or resonance for you. Sometimes it’s not possible to go outside, but a natural surrounding is more beneficial; less cluttered with old energy or the energy of others. I like big trees or rocks to witness my Ceremony. There’s no set way to approach this Ceremony; you must make it personal. However, the element of honoring your blessings, ancestors or Nature herself sets an up-spiral energy for you. If you use crystals, make sure they’ve been properly cleaned and charged beforehand. Read your list as commands, not wishes or prayers. Actually project the emotional feeling of ALREADY HAVING all that you command. (Try to hold this emotional gratitude for the whole ten hours if you can.) End with a resounding “Amen!” or “So Be It!” and then burn the paper. (That’s why you make two copies.) This releases the energy into the Universe, so it can come back to you as you commanded. If you can’t burn the paper, it’s OK; it’s just a suggestion for ritualizing your ceremony. Be careful and specific with your wording. Remember…
If you name it, you claim it.
