Lunar Return Calculator: Your Month-Ahead Chart
Each month the Moon returns to where it was when you were born. The chart for that moment is your lunar return — a forecast of the emotional themes ahead.
Your lunar return is cast for where you are this month. Leave blank to use your birth location.
Enter Your Birth Information
Provide your birth details to generate your personalized astrocartography map
What Is a Lunar Return?
A lunar return is the chart cast for the exact moment the Moon comes back to the position it held at your birth — an event that repeats about every 27.3 days.
Where a solar return sets the tone for your year, a lunar return sets the tone for your month. Because the Moon rules emotion, mood, and instinct, the return chart reads as an emotional weather report for the weeks until the next return.
The house the Moon falls in tells you where your feelings will gather this month; the return Ascendant shows how the month opens, and the return Moon’s sign colours its overall mood.
How Your Lunar Return Works
Every lunar return, the Moon sits at your exact natal Moon degree — but the rest of the chart is new, cast for the current sky and your location. That fresh arrangement of houses and planets is what makes each month distinct.
Read the return like a natal chart for the month: start with the Moon’s house (your emotional focus), then the Ascendant and any planets sitting on the angles, which show what stands out most in the weeks ahead.
How to Use the Lunar Return Calculator
Getting your month-ahead chart takes seconds — and no account.
- 1Enter your birth date, time, and place. An accurate birth time matters, because it fixes your natal Moon and the return houses.
- 2We find the exact moment the Moon returns to its birth position for the current lunar month and cast the chart.
- 3Read your result: the Moon’s house for the month’s focus, the return Moon sign for its mood, and the Ascendant for how it begins.