I would break down your SSR this way:
r Sun IC -4°38'
t Venus N -0°03'
r Uranus MC 0°00'
r Jupiter Dsc +1°28'
r Neptune MC +4°39'
t Moon op r Mercury 3°23'
r Jupiter-Uranus sq 1°28' M
r Uranus-Neptune co 2°26'
r Sun-Uranus op 2°46'
First, a gross assessment: This is an overwhelmingly positive solar return, a characteristic that will generalize through multiple (if not all) areas of your life. To try to objectify this, I rate foreground planets by relative strength in a few dynamics that matter most to most people when looking at a return:
Benefic = 16, Malefic = 2
Dignity = 11. Indignity = 3
Change = 7
Spotlight = 6
We see at once that the
benefic quality is far stronger than the barely token presence of anything malefic. Similarly,
dignity significantly outpaces indignity. It is a positive, uplifting, dignifying period. There is more than a little change during the time, and you are somewhat in the spotlight.
Clearly, Uranus and Venus dominate the time. You can look up the subtleties, but the major point is that pleasure comes your way - the world seems to be setting you up to fulfill your natural pleasure, affiliation-connection, and esthetic needs. Meanwhile, you also have extremely heightened freedom and renewal needs: You want to break out not in the sense of getting away (unless you're currently feel bound, imprisoned, constrained) but in the specific sense of wanting
new things, a sense of renewal or new start or new interests etc. These two energies together are incredibly fun or create a sense of wonder like a kid seeing a carnival midway for the first time after dark will all the lights surrounding and boggling the senses, wanting to dive in and experience everything there.
Uranus neurologically relates to the
orienting reflex, the circuits that click in when we are exposed to the unfamiliar or foreign. When this happens, our pupils dilate, the brain fixates on instantaneous absorption of data from the environment, the nervous system is poised to process information instantaneously and act just as quickly if there is any reason to move into or away from things. When our Uranus is highlighted, this circuit is locked open much more of the time.
A lot of this may be ideas - new areas of study - since SSR Moon opposes your Mercury. Your curiosities are enhanced even beyond their normal level - your
information needs are emphasized, to acquire and share and manipulate or manage data. This suggests that in addition to the potential for new relationships, travel, etc.,
new areas of study, and generally acquiring new kinds of information that prove important to you, are surely in the mix.
Your natal Uranus that will dominate the year is well aspected in the birth chart and not disturbed by transits. Your Sun-Uranus and Jupiter-Uranus aspects foreground are a great mix (not to mention the more exotic Uranus-Neptune), and the details of how these energies normally play in you will show how you go forth into this new year. (In fact
exotic might be a good keyword for the year.) Though there are details of these on the site and in the recent book, and you likely have a sense of how these have worked out in you, we can summarize with the basic principles of each of these:
Jupiter-Uranus: Progress, achievement through atypical paths, surprising luck.
Uranus-Neptune: Clash of realities, social revision, myth
Sun-Uranus: Self-renewal, liberation, individuality
Although the angularity itself
per se is the main point of all of these, there is more chance than not that some particular expressions will come from the specific angle the closest factors are on. For example,
- URANUS on MC: Need for freedom. Individuality is emphasized. A basic truth-of-self emerges. Changes in career, status, life goals. Maybe crisis involving authority. Needing to be more your own boss. Tension shows that you are resisting appropriate changes; but enthusiasm signals that you are probably on the right track.
- VENUS on Zenith: Feeling comfortable, happy, good about oneself. Enhanced self-image. Love and pleasure emphasized, affection received. Excellent for social events, public appearance, shared fun.
- JUPITER on Descendant: Increased respect. Gregarious, good-natured, sociable, inclined to cooperation. Sound relationships bring pleasure and comfort; while in strained relationships, a pause in the conflict is likely, providing space for tackling existing problems.
We can also note that both transiting natal Saturn are about as background as they could be. This doesn't really add much: It just means that energies that would contradict the above are not in play. Your natal Mercury and Venus are also background, but the Mercury is quite active from Moon's opposition and you have so much Venus in the chart that you may not notice your natal Venus not contributing much to the year. (It may, of course, be enhanced on its own in different ways, in different charts, etc.) It probably means nothing; if I were to venture anything at all, it would be that pleasure and the invitation to pleasure are coming your way and you may be the coy one, pushing your individuality (that culminating
natal Uranus) and being a bit "above it all" (the natal Jupiter). Just don't let a good thing get away from you by playing things too aloofly.
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