The Solar Return Moon and its conditioning factors indicate:
- Circumstances which evoke the most vivid feeling responses, described by the Moon's aspects to solar planets. (House and sign placements often give important added information, but we must let aspects have the say first.)
- The type of feelings easily elicited from the native, indicated by the Moon's aspects to natal plants.
- The emotional quality of the environment as the individual experiences it.
- More specifically, the emotions, nurture-needs, and other feelings of people in the environment; how the individual experiences (solar planets) and responds to (natal planets) other people's feelings.
- By implication, those things which appear to happen to the individual, as differentiated from things (s)he purposefully seeks or initiates. (The quiescent reaction principle inherent in the Moon's symbolism typically shows the individual responding passively to circumstances promised by lunar aspects, rather than a willful and conscious participation. An openness to a certain kind of experience attracts the individual to the event. The strong emotional response to that type of event singles it out as being especially significant for the individual.