The Birthday Chart: Solar Return Basics & Advanced Course
In this 90 minute class you will learn 6 ways to read your solar return chart for predictive accuracy and how to cast that chart using free online software.
A solar return chart is the sky as it appears on the moment the sun returns to its astronomical position in the sky at the time of birth by degree and sign. This tool is incredibly accurate for determining major themes, events and directions of any given age.
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Solar Return Masterclass
Read Your Birthday Chart for Best Timing
Your Solar Return is one of the most useful charts in astrology — cast at the exact moment the Sun returns to its natal degree, your true astronomical birthday. It tells the story of the year ahead: what themes dominate, where the pressure is, and where the opportunities are.
Inside the Class
An all-in-one Solar Return class that blends the essentials with deeper technique — everything you need, in one replay. Lori explicitly designed it to stand alone as "everything you need to know."
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Class Replay
Watch the full replay and learn Lori's Solar Return method from basics to advanced. Available immediately, with lifetime access.
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Slides & Reference
Download the slide deck and use it alongside your own chart. The four basic steps and six-step advanced method, all laid out clearly.
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Cast Your Chart
Included support resource walks you through casting both your natal and Solar Return charts correctly — no expensive software needed.
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12 House Meanings
Refresh your house foundations so Solar Return interpretation flows naturally — from the first house through the twelfth.
Why It Matters ✦
Why Solar Returns Matter
A Solar Return chart gives you a snapshot of the year ahead. It tells you what kind of year you are stepping into, which life areas rise to the foreground, how the year's ruler behaves, and how the months unfold from your birthday onward.
Lori teaches both the basic standalone reading method and the more advanced interpretive layering with the natal chart — so you walk away with a real, repeatable system you can use every year.
"Astrology is not just about feelings. It is navigational guidance."
✦ Method ✦
What You'll Learn
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How to Cast the Chart Correctly
Lori shows the basic workflow and stresses two key setup points: cast from your natal chart, use whole sign houses, and cast it for the location of birth. Free tools like astro.com or Astro-Seek work perfectly.
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How to Read the Chart on Its Own
Lori's four basic Solar Return reading steps — everything you need to get a clear year-ahead picture:
Rising sign and its ruler
Where the Sun lands
The Moon's condition
The MC and its ruler
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Cast Your Chart
The class then moves into the advanced six-step method — layering Solar Return with the natal chart:
How the Solar Return first house relates to the natal chart
Where the natal ascendant falls in the Solar Return
Planets in the Solar Return first house and angles
The lord of the Solar Return
Reading the chart as a natal-style story
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12 House Meanings
The major selling point of this class: Lori teaches how to profect Solar Return months from the ascendant, and from the Sun for purpose and career timing. This turns the chart from a static reading into an actual timing framework — month by month.
✦ Ideal Student ✦
This Class Is For You If…
This class is ideal if you already know some astrology but want a stronger framework for reading the year ahead. It is beginner-friendly enough to start, but especially rewards students who know basic planetary meanings, signs, and houses.
You want
To understand Solar Returns without needing expensive software — using only free tools like astro.com or Astro-Seek.
You want
A method that goes beyond generic "year ahead" fluff — real timing, not just symbolism or vague emotional reflection.
You're ready
To study with whole sign houses and work within Lori's predictive, no-nonsense framework for reading charts.
You know
Basic planetary meanings, signs, dignities, rulerships, and houses — or you're an eager beginner who wants a structured foundation.
✦ Your Instructor ✦
Why Learn with Lori
Because Lori does not teach astrology as vague personality theater. She teaches astrology as a real predictive language — built around ancient timing tools, whole sign houses, and event-oriented astrology for people who want agency over their lives, not just emotional reflection.
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"I tell you what will happen, not just how you'll feel."
"A great astrologer will tell you why."
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She moves quickly, thinks in systems, and treats astrology as something you can actually use to make better decisions. Her voice is wise and technical, upbeat and urgent, mystical but grounded.
This class is not for scrolling. It is for learning.
✦ What You Receive ✦
Your Purchase Includes
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Full Solar Return class replay — watch as many times as you need, at your own pace
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Downloadable slide deck — reference it every year alongside your own birthday chart
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Chart-casting support resource — learn to cast natal and Solar Return charts correctly for free
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12 Houses reference guide — strengthen your interpretive foundation before you begin
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Lifetime access — no expiry date, no subscription, no renewals
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A reusable framework — apply this method every birthday, every year, for the rest of your life
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It is the chart cast for the exact moment the Sun returns to the sign and degree it held at your birth. Lori teaches this directly in the replay and slide deck — including how to cast it and why the setup matters for accurate interpretation.
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No. It can fall a day before or after your calendar birthday, depending on the year. Lori notes this explicitly in the replay so you always know to cast for the correct astronomical moment, not the calendar date.
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Yes. Lori is explicit: for this method, you must use whole sign houses. The included support resource helps you set this up correctly from the very start, even if you are new to this house system.
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Lori teaches casting it for the location of birth. This is one of the important setup points she addresses directly in the class to ensure your chart is accurate.
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Yes. Lori shows you can cast both charts using free tools like astro.com or Astro-Seek. No paid software is required to follow this class or apply the method.
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No. The class starts with the easier version and moves into more advanced interpretation. Beginners can benefit — especially with the included support resources — but it especially rewards students who already know basic planetary meanings, signs, dignities, rulerships, and houses.
Frequently Asked Questions
The year tells a story.
Learn how to read it.
Your birthday is not just a milestone. It is a chart. A fresh sky. A coded story about what the next chapter is asking of you. This class helps you read that story with more precision, more confidence, and far less confusion.
The Birthday Chart: Solar Return Basics & Advanced Course
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Download the full slide deck and study the class step by step.
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How to Cast Your Chart
Learn how to cast your natal chart and Solar Return chart using free online tools.
Learn how to cast your natal chart and Solar Return chart using free online tools.
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The Meaning of the 12 Houses
Refresh the house meanings so the class makes more sense and your interpretation gets stronger.
Refresh the house meanings so the class makes more sense and your interpretation gets stronger.
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Why Advanced Profections Matter
Lori teaches profections as a genuine Time Lord system — a way to weight planetary importance in a given year, month, or day.
That changes everything
Instead of staring at a sky full of transits and wondering what matters most, profections help you identify the planets, houses, and timing windows that actually deserve your attention.
In the class materials, Lori frames this very clearly:
transits matter more when they involve planets that are active as Time Lords in that period.
This is why the technique is so useful for real life:
✔ Planning launches
✔ Timing moves
✔ Reading turning-point months
✔ Understanding ease, pressure, momentum, or visibility in a year
✔ Seeing where your life story is concentrating next
This class is for you if …
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You already understand basic annual profections
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You use whole sign houses
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You know the 12 houses and basic planetary rulership
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You want a more predictive, timing-based approach to astrology
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You're ready to move from broad themes into sharper timing windows
Note —If you are still brand new to annual profections, start with the basics first. This class is designed to deepen an existing foundation, not replace it. The slides explicitly state the prerequisite knowledge: 12 houses, planetary meaning, rulership, and whole sign houses.
Meet the Team
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Monthly profections
Learn how to nest the months inside the profection year so you can read the flow of the year with much more nuance. Lori calls these nested inside the annual profection like Russian dolls.
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Day timing by degree
Learn how planets in the profected month can indicate likely timing by day, using degree-based timing logic. The slide deck states this directly: planets in a profected month/house/sign can represent events by day, with degrees corresponding roughly to days.
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Profecting from planets and angles
Go beyond the ascendant and learn how to profect from the MC, the Moon, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and more. Lori explicitly teaches that you can profect from any planet or angle in the chart, not just the ascendant.
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Practical predictive use
This is not astrology for vague contemplation. It is astrology for timing. Lori says these tools are useful for launches, moves, practical decisions, and working in divine timing flow rather than against the current.
Predictive astrology with timing logic
Lori's strength is not generic astrology talk. It is predictive astrology with timing logic.
Her broader brand positioning is built around telling you what is likely to happen and why, using technical methods that serious astrology students respect. Her voice is fast, precise, Mercury-ruled, grounded, and confident rather than vague or fluffy.
She is especially well positioned to teach this topic because profections sit directly inside the Time Lord methodology that differentiates her brand. Internal brand strategy documents already identify Time Lord techniques as one of Lori's strongest differentiators because they let her pinpoint when things happen, not just what themes are active.
✔ Predictive astrologer ✔ Ancient timing techniques ✔ Whole sign house approach ✔ Technical, practical, no-fluff teaching
Yours to keep — forever
✔ Full class replay
✔ Downloadable slide deck
✔ Lifetime access for one payment
✔ A class you can revisit every time a new profection year opens
✔ A deeper framework for using profections in your own chart work
$33 one-time
Frequently asked
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No. This is best for students who already know the basics of annual profections, whole sign houses, and rulership.
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Monthly profections, day timing by degree, and profecting from planets and angles beyond the ascendant.
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Yes. The replay directly frames profections as useful for planning launches, moves, and practical timing choices.
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Lifetime access with a one-time payment of $33.
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Yes. Lori teaches this method using whole sign houses — it's essential to the technique.
When you know the timing,you stop guessing
Advanced profections help you see where the year is concentrating, which months carry the real weight, and where the turning points are likely to land.
If you already know the basics, this replay will help you work with the technique in a much more precise and useful way.
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