Sun conjunct moon in solar return

astralwanderer · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 15 Location: Southwest England

Hi there - this is a rather old thread. However, you might want to consider looking at the NM 19 years prior to the one in your solar return. Essentially, there should be a NM very close to the solar return that occurred 19 years ago (i.e. 19 years before the one that currently interests you).

This is the Metonic cycle, and after 19 years, the Sun and the Moon return to the same degrees of the zodiac on the same day of the year. If you have a NM on or about the solar return, it is likely to be a significant lunation in the Metonic cycle. Similar themes may occur at both lunations.

Note that this is not the same as the nodal return cycle, of about 18.6 years. The metonic cycle links lunations, which may or may not be eclipses, rather than linking eclipses, which is the Saros cycle.

I don't know if using the Metonic cycle in this way is an ancient technique, but certainly the Metonic cycle has been known about since classical times.

All the best. Ed

margherita · Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 1260 Location: Rome, Italy

The last day of 2012 Rita Levi Montalcini, the Italian Nobel-prize winner died at the age of 103. (pictures from Phasis)

She had in her solar return Sun/Moon conjunction (hers is a night chart)

and a mundane opposition between Mars/Sun

Obviously I don't think someone can die with a moon/sun conjunction, but we know that the Sun can be an anareta