Each birthday the Sun comes home to where it stood at your birth, and a fresh sky is drawn for the year. Arka casts that solar-return chart, walks your muntha to its house, names the lord of the year, and reads the whole as one honest forecast.
The Year Ahead needs your birth data — the Sun's exact place sets the solar return. Cast your chart in the Jātaka, then return here.
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Arka casts the solar return as the instant the Sun comes back to its natal sidereal longitude (Lahiri) — the Tājika convention. A tropical return is a different instant, drifting by about a day over a lifetime with the ayanāṁśa; Arka does not compute it here. From the return Arka reads the year's tendency: the muntha's field, the year-lord's temper, and whether the year's chief joining completes or has passed. It is a forecast of weather, not of events — it inclines the year, and rewards the effort you bring to it. Read it beside your daśā season and the day's sky; for a dated turning, the Event Finder.