So let’s look at the chart for the Concordance’s 5th Anniversary Solar Return. If you will recall, the particulars are as follows:
Date: November 8, 2008
Time: 7:10 AM, BST (the exact moment of the Solar return)
Place: Greenwich, UK
Astrologers will note that I have used the the Equal House system, a practice which I have used successfully for more than 30 years now. It is also the house system that was used in all my past discussions of the Concordance. Consistent, me.
Lots of places to begin, but I’ll start with the very obvious pattern in the chart. You can easily see that all of the planets fall in half of the chart, dividing the circle in two. Here they are arrayed, counterclockwise, from Saturn to Uranus. Marc Edmund Jones, one of the 20th century’s most widely read astrologers, in his book The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation, called this pattern “The Bowl.”
Perhaps the image below would more readily show “The Bowl.”