Six months later, you have your “Half-Solar Return Chart”, and that affects the last half of your personal year. The nice thing about these return charts is if you don’t like them, you can change them. Like any horoscope, these return charts must be set up for a place as well as a time. You can’t change the time of your birthday or half-birthday, but you can choose where to be at that moment.
六个月后，你就可以作一个半太阳返照盘了，这个盘内的行星会影响你的下半年的生活，如果你对返照盘星体位置不满，你是可以改变他们的位置的。地点和时间的都会对返照盘起作用，你的生日与半生日时间你是无法改变的，但是你可以决定那时你所处的地方。

When you travel, the chart wheel turns and the house positions of the planets change. More importantly, the aspects to the Angles of the horoscope change (the Ascendant and Mid-Heaven). The Angles are extremely important. They show the points where we make contact with the external world, how we begin things. They are where the horoscope rubber meets the road. And for return charts, Angles change when we travel.
当你旅行的时候，星盘与宫位就会改变，更重要的是与四角的相位就会改变，返照盘中四角是非常重要的，他们能反映你与外部世界的互动，预示着事情的发生。 原文还有一句形容四角重要的句子They are where the horoscope rubber meets the road.（^_^很形象啊，橡胶遇到道路那不就就开起来跑哈哈），对于返照盘来说当你旅行的时候四角的位置就会发生改变。

One of my favorite moves is to place Jupiter, planet of expansion and “luck” in the second house (money) and have it trine (120 degrees, a “lucky” angle) the Mid-Heaven (career). After all, if you’re going to improve career, you might as well get paid for it.
我最喜欢通过旅行让我的木星（扩张、好运）落在第二宫（金钱），而且与中天（职业）成120度角（有利），如果你想让你的事业得到提升你也可以这样做。

Oh yes. One very important thing before we start. The Earth’s orbit wobbles around the Sun. Because of this Precession, the Sun takes a little longer each year to return to the place it occupied at your birth (yes, of course, it’s the Earth that’s moving around the Sun, but since we live on the Earth, horoscopes are set up geocentrically). We have to correct for this in order to get an accurate horoscope. So be sure the solar return charts you use are precession corrected. In practice, this means that the Sun’s position will be a little bit more than it was on your birth chart. And the change gets bigger every year. Eventually, because of this precession correction, everyone’s birthday comes out a day later.
当然，还有一件事情很重要，地球围绕太阳的的轨道有点不稳定，所以太阳每年回到同一位置需要的时间要长一些，我们要修正这个时间。（是的地球是围绕太阳转，但是由于我们生活在地球上，所以星图都是以地心制的）为了更为精确我们必须修正这个时间，所以最好确定你使用的太阳返照盘是经过运动修正的，实际上这个意味着太阳比在你出生图上的太阳位置要过一点，而且这个差距每年都会变大，最后因为他的改变每个人的生日都会推后。

I have to tell you right at the start that this view is controversial among astrologers. I use the Tropical Zodiac, but precession correction is a technique from sidereal astrology. Isn’t this mixing apples and oranges? What can I say? It works. And since I have six planets in Earth signs, to me, that’s the bottom line. In December 1997, I gave a lecture at an NCGR conference comparing the corrected charts with the non-corrected ones. On several occasions, they gave similar results. However, whenever they gave different answers, the precession corrected return horoscope won hands down.
占星学家之间还有一个争议，我用回归黄道带，但是运动修正的方法来自与恒星黄道带。这不是把两个不同的东西混在一起么？说什么好呢？但是他确实起作用，因为我有6颗行星落在土相星座，所以这就是为什么。（真是霸道啊，竟然说自己星星位置好）1997年12月，我在一个NCGR会议演讲时比较了两种方法，经过运动修正的与不经过运动修正的，大多情况下得到相似的结果，但是当结果不同时，修正过的通常可以轻易胜出。

A Few Caveats

Three quarters of the Earth’s surface is water. Sometimes, the best place to be on your birthday or half-birthday turns out to be in the middle of the ocean. Or it might be some country that is in the midst of a civil war. What do you do in cases like that? You go to the second or third best place. You will still get some improvement and, six months later, you get another chance to travel and change things again.
Traveling on return charts does not automatically bring you everything you desire. If you want to sit in your room and have someone knock on your door to offer you a really great job, you’re asking for a miracle, not a boost. And you will have a really long wait. If you would like to have a fantastic relationship but, to put it mildly, you don’t take care of your personal hygiene, well potential lovers will come into your life all right. But they will leave after the first whiff.
一些告诫
四分之三的地球表面被水覆盖，有时你计算出的最好位置正好在大海的中间，或者一些正在发生内乱的国家。这时候你可以到你的第二第三选择位置去，运势一样可以得到不少提升，六个月以后你就有另外改变位置提升运气的机会了。
就算你改变了位置，好运也不会自动的撞上你，如果你坐在家里，等着人敲你家的们，然后给你一份好工作，那就可以称的上是个奇迹了。如果你希望一段好姻缘，但是确连自己卫生状况都无法保证的话，好姻缘就算来了，也会马上离开你。

You can seldom improve more than one thing at a time. For instance, it will be either career or relationships. However, you could choose one now, and the other six months later.
一般来说你不能一次提升两种运势，所以你必须选择一个，是事业还是爱情，当然现在你可以先选一个，6个月后再选择一个。

Sometimes the planets happen to make a lot of stress aspects. No matter where you go, some area of your chart will have problems. In that case, travel to the place that’s the least bad. At least, with your knowledge of your return horoscope, you will know where the problems are and can take preventive steps in advance. Brace yourself and get through it. In six months you have another chance to travel and improve your life.
一些时候，一些行星会有一些不良相位，不管你移动到哪里，生活中的一些方面都会受到影响，这种情况下你只能尽量降低不好的一面，再通过你对返照盘反映信息的分析，作出必要的预防，帮助你顺利渡过难关。

Results depend on your initial situation. If you are a 90 year old high school dropout, a birthday trip cannot make you a nuclear physicist or an Olympic champion. When it comes to income and career, the best improvements seem to come when you are self-employed, are paid on commission, or are looking for a new job. If you work for civil service, on the other hand, your salary and position are set by law and contract. In a case like that, you don’t get the best benefits of birthday travel. Unless, of course, you are moonlighting on the side. The more flexible and open your position, the better the results.

当然一切还的取决与你的自身条件，如果你已经90岁高龄了，你就不要指望通过旅行把你的身体条件提高到奥运会水平，自己经营一个公司的人会比拿固定工资的职员相比，会更受到改变地点的影响，当然你有第二职业除外。
Case Histories

The best way to learn about return charts is to dive right in and do them. In most of the cases, I’ll give you the chart for the city of residence first. Then I’ll explain the reasons for being elsewhere.
最好的学习返照盘的方法就是立刻开始做，大多情况下，我会先给你做现在居住城市的星盘，然后我再给你解释为什么

The first example is My own solar return for 1981, the year I first traveled on my birthday. Notice that there is a T-square formed by the Sun and Moon (which co-rule the body) with Pluto, planet of extremes (including death). On top of that, this fell in Angular houses making the configuration stronger. Naturally, since I have the Moon in Cancer (sign of hysterics and hypochondriacs) I panicked. I figured if I could get that T-square in Cadent houses instead, it would be weakened. But that would also weaken the Sun and I didn’t want to risk health. What to do?
第一个例子就是1981年我自己的返照盘，那年是我第一次通过生日旅行改变运势。那年我注意到我得返照盘上太阳月亮（身体）冥王星（极端的、死亡）形成一个准确的t三角，冥王为顶点，而且落在Angular宫，让这个构形力量更强大。我的本命盘上月亮落在巨蟹（发疯、忧郁症）我非常恐慌，我想如果让t三角落在Cadent宫会好一些，但是这会使太阳力量减弱，我也不想拿健康冒险，我该怎么办？

Then I remembered that elevating a planet would make it stronger. If the Sun were in the 9th house, it would be both Cadent and elevated. To do that, I would have to move the planets counterclockwise. That meant traveling at least 40 degrees west. Going to L.A. would do the trick. I went, stayed there for 36 hours (it was so smoggy, I didn’t leave the hotel) and came back. A day later, my phone started ringing off the hook with new clients. That was the year my income more than doubled and I became a full time astrologer.
我想起elevating（振奋提升？）一颗行星能让它更强，如果太阳在第九宫，它就是既elevated又Cadent。为了做到这一点我必须反转星盘，这意味这至少向西移动40度，最后我去了L.A.洛杉矶呆了36个小时，由于雾很大我甚至没有出旅店就回来了，一天以后就有客户找我算命了，那一年我收入翻番，而且做起了全职的占星师。

The funny thing was, I wasn’t even trying to increase my income. I just wanted to put those stress aspects in weaker houses. I took another look at the return horoscope. As you can see from the My 1981 solar return for L.A., Mars (action) is right on the Mid-Heaven (career). Jupiter and Saturn make trine aspects to Mars (aspects between planets don’t change with one’s location) and now, they trine the Mid-Heaven as well. When Jupiter and Saturn get together and hit something important in your horoscope, it increases the possibility of major life events.
让人好笑的是我并没有想过提高我的收入，我只是想让那些不良相位的行星落入弱一点的宫位。回过头去看看1981年洛杉矶的返照盘火星（行动）正好落在中天（职业）。木星土星都与火星呈120度（行星间的相位并不会因为地点改变而改变）现在他们都与中天成120度角了，当土木在一起的时候对你生活中的重要时间影响力是非常大的。

Mercury rules the house of money (Gemini is on the house cusp) and it sits in the sign Aquarius, where it happens to be very strong (“exalted” is the term). Mercury also makes wide trines to Jupiter and Saturn. So money and career are both strengthened.
水星是第二宫的宫主星，它正好落在水平座（耀升），它也与土木成120度，所以钱与事业都得到增强。

Notice too, that Neptune, one of the rulers of astrology, is sitting in close conjunction to the financial axis, the line that runs from the 2nd house cusp to the 8th house cusp. The Moon and Pluto are also making favorable aspects. Almost no attention is given to aspects to house cusps (other than aspects to the Ascendant and Mid-Heaven). This is unfortunate because they do work.
天王星，占星学上具有统治力的行星，正好落于财经轴（第二宫第八宫连线上）月亮与冥王星也形成友好的相位，我开始没有注意宫头的相位不过他们确实起了作用。

The next example is the chart of a client who’s company was downsizing. They were going to get rid of her entire department. She wanted to travel to increase “luck” in her career area so that she could get a new job. I outdid myself with this one. In Client One, New York horoscope, Mars made a trine to the Mid-Heaven, but that wouldn’t do. Mars would just give her extra energy to use in her career.
下一个例子是我的一个客户，她的公司正在缩小规模，她的部门可能完全被取消，她希望通过旅行改变事业上的运气，让她能找到一个新工作，这次比我的例子更成功，在她的纽约星宫图上火星与中天呈120度角，但是这个没用，这只能在事业上给她提供更多的力量。

When you absolutely, positively have to expand something beyond all bounds, turn to Jupiter (assuming that it is not afflicted). You can see the results in Client One (Newfoundland). Jupiter makes a trine to her Mid-Heaven from the 2nd house (money). She called me a few weeks after her birthday to tell me that they had fired everyone in her department. Except her. She even got her old supervisor’s office.
当你肯定要摆脱一切限制发展一些事情的时候，就得用到木星了（确定它没有受到其他行星的折磨）她的纽新兰星盘第二宫的木星与中天呈120度角，生日后的几个星期她告诉我除了她，她部门所有的人都被解雇了，她的职位级别也没有改变。

Another client came to me in tears because she was close to loosing a building she owned. She spent thousands for renovation and it was still half vacant. The bank was talking foreclosure. The next solar return set for New York was not good Client Two, New York. Gemini was the sign on the Mid-Heaven (career) and Sagittarius was on the Nadir (the bottom of the chart). The Nadir rules the home, but I find that it rules real estate matters in general. The planets that rule these signs (Mercury and Jupiter) were making a square (90 degrees, a stress aspect). Not good for a real estate business. It was time to turn the wheel.

一个客户哭着来找我因为她就要失去她自己的房子了 ，她花费了很多钱改善房子的条件，但是还有大部分是闲置的；银行也在催促她还贷款。她纽约的返照盘不好，中天（职业）落在双子座，天底（家庭）落在射手座，天底掌管家庭的事情，但是我发现它还关系到产业的方面，掌管这些事物的行星水星和木星形成刑相位，不适宜这方面的事情。我们需要转动星盘。
Jupiter was making trines to both Uranus and Neptune. If we could put 13 degrees of Taurus on the Mid-Heaven, there would be a grand trine and it would strongly improve career. That would be about 19 degrees difference from the New York Mid-Heaven. The Client Two (Des Moines, Iowa) horoscope shows the results. Not only is Jupiter trine the Mid-Heaven. It is also in the 2nd house (money) and Jupiter is the planet of “luck.” And it sits right on the financial axis.

木星和天王，冥王成120相位，如果我们能使土星转动13度，构成一个大三角相位，这样就能对职业构成有力的影响，大约是纽约的返照盘偏移19度，爱河华洲的得梅因星盘正好如此，不光是木星中天形成120相位，也由于吉星木星落在二宫金钱宫正好位于经济轴上。
She called me 3 months later to say she couldn’t talk to me because she was too busy showing apartments (only a Sagittarius or a Gemini would do that!). Within 5 months, all of the apartments were rented. In the meantime, her bank sold the mortgage to another bank. The new mortgage holders lowered her interest by a point and they forgave over $2,000 in late fees that the first bank had charged her.

三个月后她打电话告诉我她几乎没有时间与我多聊，因为她每天都忙于带人看房（仅仅是射手或双子就能这样！）五个月之内，所有得房间都出租出去了，在这段时间，那家催她还钱得银行被另外一家银行收购，新的银行降低了她的贷款利率，还减免了她2000$。

Here’s another example of improving business and finances. The solar return in our next example did have Jupiter in the 2nd house (money). But, as you can see in the Client Three, New York chart, it was way at the end of the house. Besides that, there were no aspects to the Mid-Heaven, meaning little action in career. I sent him to Saint John’s Newfoundland as well. As you can see from the Client 3, Newfoundland horoscope, Jupiter makes an almost exact aspect to the Mid-Heaven. The closer the aspect is to exact, the greater the effect. When he came back for an update, he told me that there was a potential client whose business he had been trying to get for over two years but they couldn’t work anything out. While he was in Newfoundland on his birthday, she called to tell him that he got the deal. Oh yes. He also told me that his phone was “ringing off the hook” with new business for the next three months

这里还有一个例子是改善企业财务状况的。这个例子的返照木星也落在金钱宫，但是你可以看到客户3纽约的盘，它落在宫尾，而且没有与中天的相位，所以对职业的影响力是有限的。我建议他去纽新兰，我们可以看到，在纽新兰的返照盘上，木星和中天构成精确相位。相位越精确，所产生的作用就越大。当他回来以后，他告诉我他有个潜在的客户在那边，但是两年都没有谈成，当他到纽新兰的那段时间里，他们在那里达成了协议，当然后来他还告诉在那3个月以后他还做成了很多新生意。
I repeat, any area of your life can be strengthened, not just money and career. Another client asked me if there were someplace she could go on her coming half-birthday to improve her love life because “it’s dead.” Her half-solar for New York Client Four, (New York) had the sign of Sagittarius on the cusp (beginning) of the 5th house (romance) but Jupiter was in the previous house. That’s known as 12th house position and the matter in question tends to be weakened. Not only that, but her Mid-Heaven (career) was afflicted with five square aspects from those planets in her 6th house.

重复一点，不光金钱和职业，生活的各个方面都可以得到加。一个客户问我能不能在他半生日的时候能去一个地方了改善一下她死水一样的爱情生活。他的返照盘5宫宫头（爱情宫）在射手座，但是木星在前一个宫。不光如此中天还受到第六宫的5个刑相位的折磨。

Squares to the Mid-Heaven can be dealt with by traveling 30 degrees in either direction. 30 degrees east of New York would have put her in Brazil. But then, Pluto would have moved to the bottom of the chart, opposing her Mid-Heaven. It’s generally not a good thing to have the planet of death affecting your career and home. 30 degrees west put her in Denver.
如果任意方向转动30度就可以使刑相位消失，如果东移30度，就在巴西，但是冥王就落天底冲中天。冥王去影响事业和家庭实在不是件好事情啊！所以西移30度到了丹佛。
As you can see, Client Four (Denver) put Jupiter, planet of “good luck”, expansion, and increase, in her 5th house (romance). On top of that, Jupiter made a trine aspect (120 degrees, a “lucky” influence) to her Ascendant. This too improves relationships. There were now 3 sextiles to her Mid-Heaven instead of 5 squares and that should have helped her career. But I forgot that the Mid-Heaven also rules your “public image” and Jupiter increases and expands whatever it touches.

我们可以看到，第四个客户的丹佛返照盘上吉星木星（扩张、好运）落5宫（爱情）三合上升，而且，6宫的刑相位代之以3个6合相位，对事业产生好的推进。但是我忘记了中天也主宰着公众形象，木星会对它能接触到的星体产生作用。
“I have a boyfriend now, but these people are still calling me and writing me and bothering me” she complained. Since I’m a Capricorn Sun Sign, I told her to make a list of their names and sell it to other women. She was not amused. A few weeks later, that episode of “Rolanda” was rebroadcast, and my client got even more calls and letters. For years afterwards, every time she came for an update, she would ask where she had to be to improve money and career. Romance was not mentioned. And that is why I say...
...Be careful what you wish for because you can get it!

“我有男朋友了，但是一些人还在不停的打电话写信给我”她回来以后向我抱怨，由于我是个摩羯座的人，所以我告诉她，把那些男士的名字列一个名单，然后卖给另外一个不开心的女士，以后的日子里，当她想改善自己运势的时候，她会问我最合适的提升金钱与职务的地方。

One more word of caution. Always check Everything. Transits, progressions, solar arcs. And check them to midpoints as well. I had a client who didn’t want a complete reading, just her solar return chart. All she was interested in was where to be on her next birthday so she could get a better job. I forgot where I sent her. About two months after she got back, she was suddenly fired. Something was hitting in her transits. A few weeks later, she did get a better job, but the shock could have been avoided had she let me check everything. Be thorough and avoid nasty surprises.
提醒一下，经常检查下你的行运 推运 太阳弧盘，最好再检查他们的中点，我有个一个客户不想做一个完整的检查，因为她只关心她生日那天最好在哪里，能让她得到一份工作。我也忘了她去了哪里，她回来后两个月突然被解雇了，她受到了行运的影响，虽然2个星期后她又得到了一份更好的工作，如果让我做一份完整的检查，这样让人不爽的情况应该士可以避免的。