Connect with Your Year:
A Solar Return Orientation
Once a year, the Sun returns to the exact degree it occupied when you were born. That moment marks the start of your personal new year and it carries its own quality of time.
Connect With Your Year is a three-hour, one-on-one orientation built around that moment. We use your Solar Return chart, the planet cast as choreographer of your year, and an oracle reading to map the shape of what’s ahead before it gets away from you.
You leave with a clear sense of what this year is asking for, plus a Solar Year Map to hold that orientation as the months unfold.
Booking opens July 2025. Join the waitlist for early access.
This is not a chart reading.
I’m not going to list your transits while you take notes.
A Solar Return orientation is a guided experience. We use astrology as a compass to identify the quality of time your year is moving through, where your energy will feel supported, and where it won’t. Then we translate that into something you can actually live with.
No jargon. No predictions. No fixed outcomes.
What we do together
We start with a reflection. Three questions about the last twelve months of your life. Where you’ve been shapes how you read where you’re going.
We identify the planet cast as choreographer of your year. The one whose themes will color everything. We look at what it governs, and how it’s shown up in your life the last time it was in charge.
The choreography is yours to interpret.
We map your quarters. I walk you through the quality of time across the year. Together we will discover when you move, when you consolidate, and when you rest, so you’re working with your year’s rhythm instead of against it.
We do an oracle pull. One card for each month. Not predictions, but orientation. A sense of what energy you’re being asked to bring.
We close with an invitation to name a word for your year. Something to return to when the noise gets loud.
What you take with you
Your Solar Year Map—a twelve-box worksheet with your monthly oracle cards and themes, completed during our session. It’s the container that holds your orientation after we close.
Who this is for
People who want to move through their year with intention and ready to notice its rhythms rather than being flattened by them.
You might be drawn to this if you’ve sensed that some years have a different quality than others. That some periods feel supported, and others feel like pushing through wet concrete. This session gives that pattern a framework.
This is for you if:
- You want to enter your year with orientation, not just intention
- You're drawn to reflection and pattern-tracking as a practice
- Astrology interests you but the jargon loses you
This is NOT for you if:
- You're looking for coaching, accountability, or crisis support
- You want prescriptive goal-setting or a productivity system
- You need someone to tell you what to do
What They're Saying
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What shifts after
You start noticing the synchronicities. The quality of time stops feeling abstract and starts feeling recognizable. You begin to feel in sync with your energy, your output, your sense of what’s actually being asked of you right now.
That’s not a plan. That’s a practice.
How this works
Your Role: Show up with curiosity. Be willing to reflect and notice.
My Role: Before we meet, I spend eight to ten hours with your charts comparing your birth chart to your Solar Return, mapping aspects to your houses, reading how the quality of each season is likely to feel in your specific life. Not a list of transits. I come to our session having already learned the score, so we can spend our time together making it yours.
The Solar Year Map’s role: Hold your orientation. Give you something to return to each month.
This is a once-per-year experience. A ritual threshold at the start of your year. It is not coaching, ongoing support, or a subscription.
"Athena saw the cause. That distinction alone was invaluable."
I recently did Athena’s Solar Return orientation around my half-birthday, and I filled three pages of notes.
I originally wanted insight into my business—when to launch offers, how to engage more people, what to watch out for, and why I had been feeling so overwhelmed, impatient, and frustrated. What I received was far deeper than a simple “here’s your year” reading.
Athena helped me understand the larger cycles I am moving through and showed me where I am in the story of this particular year. One of the biggest breakthroughs was understanding my Mercury year—not just recognizing the themes, but seeing how they were helping me and where they were tripping me up. I had been noticing the effects in my life, but Athena saw the cause. That distinction alone was invaluable.
What impressed me most was how detailed and structured the session was. Even as someone who doesn’t know much astrology, I found it fascinating and easy to follow. This wasn’t a generic sun-sign reading. Athena looked at the broader architecture of my year, including timing, cycles, and the specific windows when I would be supported to launch, expand, share, rest, or regroup.
One of the most reassuring parts of the session was learning that some periods of fatigue and overwhelm weren’t signs that something was wrong. They were simply part of the rhythm of the season I was entering. That understanding immediately relieved a great deal of pressure.
I left feeling clear, grounded, and confident about what to do next. In fact, I’m now soft-launching my new mentorship on the date Athena recommended.
If you’re wondering why you feel stuck, trying to understand your timing, or looking for a way to work with your natural cycles instead of against them, I highly recommend spending time with Athena. Her combination of deep astrological expertise, intuition, and practical insight is extraordinary.
Investment
$997
Your session includes three hours together on Zoom, eight to ten hours of chart preparation done in advance so we can go deep from the start, and your completed Solar Year Map.
12 spots available per year. Booking opens July 2025.
Spots open one at a time, by Sun sign season. When your season opens, everyone on the waitlist receives the link simultaneously. First to purchase secures the spot.
Moon Play members get the link before the waitlist. If early access matters to you, membership is the most direct path.
FAQs
Moon Play is designed for everyday noticing and alignment with the moon’s cycles. Connect with Your Year takes a wider view, helping you see your entire solar year from a higher vantage point. This makes your Moon Play practice more intentional and focused, because you understand the themes and rhythms that will shape your year.
No prior knowledge is required. This offering is beginner-friendly. A basic understanding of zodiac signs, planets, and houses is helpful, but the session is designed to guide you through everything you need to orient with your year.
Yes, but only within the first quarter or midpoint of your solar year. Scheduling outside these windows may reduce the value of the orientation, so we recommend waiting until your next solar return. This ensures you enter your year with the clearest possible understanding.
Your custom Moon Play journal will be shipped to your address before your session. Shipping is included in the price. Journals are shipped via USPS/UPS and typically arrive within 10 business days. Please ensure your address is correct at booking.
Because this is a personalized offering that includes a physical journal, sessions cannot be canceled once the journal has shipped. If you need to reschedule, please contact us at hello@moonandcraft.com at least 10 before your session. This ensures the best experience for both you and the work.