So then you have to place the SR in the center wheel and the natal planets on the outer wheel to get the right relationship between the charts.
Usually with return charts software puts the natal ascendant on the cusp, which doesn't correctly show the solar return angles and houses in bi-wheels. I don't know if the newer versions of Solar Fire have this option. I use an old version of Solar Fire (5.2 very old!!) but the module that places the solar return/ennead/decan ascendant on the outer wheel along with the transiting planets was designed by a sidereal astrologer, now deceased. it would help if i could do that too, or better yet - understand the concept more thoroughly then i do. what astro software are you generating these charts from? thanks. Thanks for introducing a new concept with charts. Last edited by Therese Hamilton on Wed 6:33 pm edited 2 times in total What is more, there is evidence that the 40-day period breaks down into four "decanate" sub-intervals of 10 days apiece. So lucid are its indications, we are tempted to suggest that the recent proliferation of "return" formulas - kinetics, anlunars, and all their cousins - amounts more a scratch the novienic return than to practical truth." "I believe it can be stated quite unequivocally, on the basis of extensive statistics, that the novienic solar return is more intense in its impact than even the familiar lunar return.
"With the exception of the first or conjunction solar return, which applies to the full year ahead in general and the first 40 days after one's birthday in particular, each of the novienic solar returns holds sway over a period averaging just over 40 days and nights." spoke of life circumstances that lasted "40 days" or "40 days and 40 nights" - the average duration of an Ennead being just over 40 1/2 days (ranging from 38.3 to 41.9 days). He went on to show how often the Bible etc.
Initially bothered by this, Bradley soon realized "that the originally Egyptian, currently standard Hindu, system of 'novienic' or 'navamsa' divisions of the ecliptic also held true as viable returns." This meant "nine basic 'solar returns' during each year," one for every 40° of Sun's travel. (.The key here is that, other than the SSR itself, the SMRs that were most strikingly significant were the two where Sun trined Sun.)
The charts for Sun trine natal Sun (two of the non-SSR SMRs in the course of the year) were "surprisingly" on the plus side, even more than the 'square' returns, called the quartisolars. He tested it "statistically, using mainly death and accident cases." He found statistically significant results in favor of the SMR. When the Solar Monthly Return was first introduced (Sun every 30° around the zodiac - same degree, minute, and second as at birth, but of each successive sign, once per month), Bradley investigated its possible merit. The salient points are as follows, under the title "Return Theory Updated:" Garth Allen introduced the Ennead less than a year before his death, in the September 1973 issue of American Astrology. I didn't reproduce this in Interpreting Solar Returns, in the Ennead chapter, and it doesn't get much attention elsewhere. In writing about the Ennead the last few days, it has occurred to me that most students have no information on the statistical basis of its discovery. Last edited by Therese Hamilton on Wed 6:36 pm edited 8 times in totalĮxerpts: Posted on the Solunars Forum, Jby Jim Eshelman So a bi-wheel is the easiest way to see the connections between the charts.
It’s important to mention that all of these charts, the solar reuturn, ennead and decan chart have to be used with the natal chart. It may be possible to discover specific days for events by noting transiting planets, but I never had the time to test transits to either the ennead or decan charts. I’ve found that the ten day Decan charts produce dramatic pictures of main events within each time period. 1979) I have tried working with the many complexities of the Indian Varshaphal chart, but find the simplicity of the western (Fagan-Bradley) techniques easier to use along with the Khullar/Krishnamurti star (mansion/nakshtara) placement of planets. The Ennead was discovered by Donald Bradley, and discussed in James Eshelman’s Interpreting Solar Returns (Astro-Analytics Publications. By derivatives I mean the Ennead chart that divides each solar year into nine 40 day periods, similar to the navamsa division through the zodiac, and the Decan chart which divides each Ennead into four ten day charts or 36 “decans” for each solar return year. Through the years I’ve found the solar return chart and its derivatives the easiest to use for predictions. Posted: Fri 11:13 pm Post subject: Reading SR/Ennead/Decan Charts