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Free planetary return calculator: exact dates for every return in your chart from the Swiss Ephemeris. Solar, lunar, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, nodal, and Chiron returns on one dated timeline.
Your chart runs on stacked clocks. The Moon returns to its natal degree every ~27.3 days, the Sun once a year (your solar return), Venus about yearly, Mars about every 23 months, Jupiter every ~11.9 years, the lunar nodes every ~18.6, Saturn every ~29.5, and Chiron completes its cycle in roughly 50, with squares and an opposition as checkpoints along the way. Every one of those homecomings is a dated, computable moment in your chart, and each opens a different kind of chapter.
Averages are not good enough for returns: retrograde loops routinely shift a real crossing weeks away from the mean-cycle estimate and can split one return into three exact passes. This calculator scans the real ephemeris around each return and dates the earliest exact crossing, the moment the new cycle opens. Rows that cannot be solved exactly are labeled approximate rather than dressed up as precise.
The practical use is simple: know which resets land in your next 12 months and give each one an intention at the moment it opens, then review at the next pass. A solar return asks what the new year of your life is for; a Mars return asks where your energy should go; a Saturn return asks what deserves to be rebuilt. If you want the space between the returns dated too, a full timing map extends this from return days to every significant window in your year.
A planetary return is a transiting planet coming back to the exact position it held at your birth. Each planet does this on its own cycle, and astrologers read each return as the start of a new chapter in that planet's themes: the Moon's monthly emotional reset, the Sun's yearly solar return, Saturn's famous ~29-year restructuring. This calculator dates all of them for your chart at once.
For everyone: about 13 lunar returns, one solar return, and usually one Venus return. Mars returns land about every 23 months, so roughly every other year contains one. The slow cycles are rarer: Jupiter every ~11.9 years, the nodes every ~18.6, Saturn every ~29.5, and Chiron's milestones spread across a ~50-year cycle. The calculator sorts your next 12 months from your longer cycles automatically.
Enter your birth details above: the calculator solves the exact date transiting Mars re-crosses your natal Mars degree, about every 23 months. In years where Mars retrogrades across your natal degree a single return can become up to three exact passes; the calculator dates the earliest pass, when the new cycle opens.
The dates are solved from the Swiss Ephemeris, not estimated from average cycles: the calculator scans the real sky around each return and bisects to the exact crossing. Retrograde planets get the earliest pass of each return cluster. In the rare case a crossing cannot be solved, the row is labeled approximate instead of being presented as exact.
In traditional practice the slow returns mark eras: Saturn returns around 29 and 58 are the classic threshold years, Jupiter returns open growth chapters roughly every 12 years, and the nodal return is read as a direction-of-life checkpoint. The fast returns (Moon, Sun, Venus, Mars) are working rhythm: smaller resets you can actually plan around. Seeing them on one timeline is what makes the ladder useful.