Your month ahead, mapped
A lunar return chart is cast for the exact moment the Moon returns to its natal position each month, revealing the tone of the coming lunar cycle.
What it shows
Monthly emotional climate, rhythms, and immediate themes.
Location matters
Where you are changes the lunar return house layout.
Use it monthly
Best for one-month timing alongside transits.
Birth details & month
Enter your birth data, choose the month you want to inspect, and the city where you'll experience that lunar return.
Your birth details
Choose a city from the suggestions for coordinates.
House system
Affects houses, angles, overlays, and house-based readings.
Lunar Return Month
We'll find the exact Moon return happening inside this month.
Location during the month
The lunar return houses are cast for this location.
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Read the monthly chart with a cleaner timing frame.
These timing reads help place the lunar return beside solar returns and transits, so the monthly chart does not get overloaded with every symbol at once.
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Solar Return Vs Lunar Return
A clear guide to what each return chart is actually good for before you mix timing tools together.
How To Read A Solar Return Chart Without Getting Lost
Useful context if you want the monthly lunar cycle to sit inside the larger birthday-year story.
Which Transits Actually Matter Most
A good companion read when you want to separate monthly mood from stronger transit pressure.
How To Read Transit Orbs Without Getting Lost
Helpful when the lunar return is active but you need tighter timing judgment before over-reading a day.
A Lunar Return Chart Shows The Tone Of One Moon Cycle
A lunar return chart is a short-range timing chart. It begins when the Moon returns to the same zodiac position it held at birth and describes the emotional weather of the next lunar month. It is especially useful when you want a focused view of mood, pace, routines, relationship needs, and the house topics that become more immediate.
Why Lunar Returns Work Best As Monthly Context
The lunar return should not replace transits or the natal chart. It works best as a monthly container. The return Moon, Ascendant, angular planets, and close contacts to natal placements show which themes are louder for this cycle. If a transit is already activating the same house or planet, the lunar return can show how that bigger story feels in daily life.
How To Read The Result Without Chasing Every Detail
Start with the lunar return Moon, the Ascendant, the Moon house, and tight aspects back to natal planets. Then look for repetition. If the Moon, angles, and natal contacts keep pointing to the same topic, that is the monthly theme to prioritize. A useful lunar return reading is compact, not encyclopedic.
Calculation standards
How this Regu calculation works
The method, input sensitivity and limits below reflect the active calculation contract rather than a generic description of the technique.
- Exact calculation
- Regu finds the moment in the selected month when the transiting Moon returns to its natal zodiac longitude, then casts a chart for that moment at the chosen return location. Houses use the selected Placidus or Whole Sign system.
- Required inputs and precision
- Birth date, local birth time and place, target month, return location and house system. Birth time refines the natal Moon; return location changes angles and houses.
- Non-personal example
- If the natal Moon is at 12°34′ Taurus, the return is the instant the transiting Moon again reaches that longitude. Moving the return city does not change the return instant, but can change the Ascendant and houses.
- What the result contains
- Exact return moment, wheel, planets, houses, aspects inside the return chart and contacts back to the natal chart.
- What it does not claim
- The chart describes a short symbolic cycle, not a guaranteed monthly outcome. With uncertain birth time, the return moment, angles and house emphasis should be treated as provisional.