You can simply look into the ephemeris and see when transiting Mercury, Venus, or Mars returns to the original zodiacal position on your natal chart again. It actually happens quite often. But that is not a synodic planetary return. A synodic planetary return is when Mercury, Venus or Mars returns to it’s original degree in closest proximity to your birthday.
Essentially what you get is the recreation of the angle between the Sun and Mercury, Venus or Mars that you were born under. It is a return cycle of a higher order than if Venus, Mars or Mercury simply return to the original zodiacal degree of your birth chart. Mercury goes retrograde three times a year. Venus will do every year, and Mars about every two years.
Again, lets for a moment go back to the Moon. Most individuals are familiar at this moment with the magic of working with the Sun/Moon angle. If you are born under a Sun/Moon square, then each month there will be a Sun/Moon square, which can be considered to be your lunar birthday. It works actually for both men and women, although there is a lot of material out there first sourced from the 1960s under the subject of astrological birth control.
You can choose any starting point that you want and you will have the same number in 584 days Venus will have gone through all of her phases. That doesn’t fit into a one year or two year solar cycle. It is pretty irrational to try to fit one synodic cycle of Venus into a year. However, if we multiply five synodic cycles, the 8 year it comes out almost exactly even, give or take about a day and a half. Elegant. There is nothing that is quite that close in the other planetary cycles.
But the really wild thing is that five of the synodic cycles, within one day, equals 13 sidereal circuits of Venus around the Sun. So there is a magical 5, 8, 13 sequence with Venus, connected to the Fibonacci sequence found throughout nature. Steiner, whose ideas help found the astrophophy school, knew this. A major part of his school was in working with this insight. Now if you are you are looking at where Venus rises as the morning star, 584 days after Venus rises as morning star it is not going to rise the next time in the same sign, or in the same season. So you have to go through 5 of these cycles for Venus to come back to its starting point in relation to the Sun in a particular sign and the same season.
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That is the synodic return of Venus, when it comes back to it’s original degree, as close as possible to your birthday. This is the re-creation of the natal Sun/Venus angle. Therefore, since it is an eight-year cycle, it is very easy to know if you are in a return cycle of Venus if you use multiples of eight. The years 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96 and so on are years of “Venus Returns.”
