quincunx
Pluto quincunxℹ
natal Mars
Pluto moves like demolition, compost, a deep dive: let what is false die so what is true can regrow.
Today on your chart · the day's weather
what's active now, and the shifts ahead. Monday, 13 July 2026 · 16:28 UTC. Transiting Pluto is making a quincunx to your natal Mars. Collective sky (no chart): Sky.
Contacts on the day
applying left of now, separating to the right. tighter orbs sit closer to the gold marker.
10 contacts live against this chart · orb window ±6°
Asteria · the week, in one read
The loudest thing in your sky this week is disruption, pressing against your drive and ambition. Day to day, the Moon colors it with a tender, inward pull. Pluto is retrograde, asking you to revisit where power and shadow live.
The day in layers
A quick read of what is loudest today, what else is active, where slow planets are working in your chart, and the longer emotional season underneath.
- Right nowUranus grinds against your Mars (drive and how you assert): friction: uncomfortable, productive if you work it
- Season underneathProgressed Moon in Aries: A season of new emotional beginnings, when you are learning to want and to start openly
5thhouse year
your profection year
A 5th-house year · age 40
Annual profections move the spotlight one house each year. At age 40, yours rests on the 5th house: creation. play. pleasure. children. the radiance of the self.
The sign on that house is Aries, so its ruler is your Lord of the Year. Mars sits in Virgo in your 10th house. Wherever the Lord of the Year sits is where this year's story concentrates. And transits to it (below) carry extra weight until your next birthday.
In your chart: the sign on your 5th-house cusp and the year lord: your natal style of pleasure and self-expression.
the year lord is Mars: drive, conflict, heat, and surgery. Mars transits, returns, and retrogrades time the fights worth having and the energy you must spend.
the next 90 days
What is loud right now
The sky sorted by volume: each bar spans the transit's active window; today is marked in gold. The three loudest contacts are named before you scroll the week and year timelines.
Loudest · 01
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Pluto square natal Pluto
Transiting Pluto is making a square to your natal Pluto.
Exact · 2026-09-30
Loudest · 02
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Uranus square natal Mars
Transiting Uranus is making a square to your natal Mars.
Exact · 2026-07-20
Loudest · 03
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Saturn trine natal Uranus
Transiting Saturn is making a trine to your natal Uranus.
Exact · 2026-08-20
The Moon, on you
Moon in Cancer
· passing through your
8th house
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Mon 13
charged
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Tue 14
quiet
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Wed 15
quiet
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Thu 16
quiet
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Fri 17
quiet
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Sat 18
charged
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Sun 19
quiet
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The sky pivoting
The turns worth marking on your chart: eclipses that supercharge a degree, every new and Full Moon and the house each one lands in, and planets moving in reverse through your houses.
New & Full Moons ahead
Each lunation lands in one of your natal houses: the area of life it opens (new) or brings to a head (full).
- 14 Jul 2026New Moon in 21° CancerBegins in your 9th house · belief, travel, the wider view. Start a study, a journey, a search for meaning beyond the familiar.
- 29 Jul 2026Full Moon in 6° AquariusIlluminates your 3rd house · Something said, learned or written reaches completion: a conversation finishes, an idea lands, a last word is spoken.
- 12 Aug 2026New Moon in 20° LeoBegins in your 9th house · belief, travel, the wider view. Start a study, a journey, a search for meaning beyond the familiar.
- 28 Aug 2026Full Moon in 4° PiscesIlluminates your 4th house · A home or family matter culminates: a move, a healing, a shift at the root. Something at the foundation is seen clearly, or released.
- 11 Sep 2026New Moon in 18° VirgoBegins in your 10th house · career, reputation, your public path. Plant a seed for what you want to be known for.
- 26 Sep 2026Full Moon in 3° AriesIlluminates your 5th house · A creative work or a romance reaches its peak. Celebrate what has bloomed, or release what has run its natural course.
- 10 Oct 2026New Moon in 17° LibraBegins in your 11th house · friendship, community, the future you are building. Begin something with or for your people.
- 26 Oct 2026Full Moon in 2° TaurusIlluminates your 6th house · A job, a habit or a health effort comes to fruition. Complete it. And shed the routine that no longer serves the body.
Eclipses ahead
Each eclipse supercharges the degree it falls on for months either side. The ones that touch a natal point are the markers worth watching.
- 12 Aug 2026Total/Annular solar eclipse at 20°02′ Leofalls in your 9th house · no tight natal contact
- 28 Aug 2026Partial lunar eclipse at 4°54′ Pisceslands on natal Mars (opposition, 0.3° orb) · in your 4th house
- 6 Feb 2027Total/Annular solar eclipse at 17°38′ Aquariusfalls in your 3rd house · no tight natal contact
- 20 Feb 2027Penumbral lunar eclipse at 2°06′ Virgolands on natal Mars (conjunction, 2.5° orb) · in your 10th house
Active retrogrades
Planets moving in reverse right now, framed by the natal house they're passing through. That's the department of your life the rethink is landing in.
Mercury retrograde · in your 9th house
the conversation, the deals, the routes: all under review
Neptune retrograde · in your 5th house
dreams and dissolutions, turned inward; the fog thins, but only for the part of you that wants to see
Pluto retrograde · in your 3rd house
transformation pulled deeper underground; the underworld work continues out of sight
The seven days ahead
Every Mars-through-Pluto transit that goes exact this week: the dates the heavy contacts peak.
- Tue 14 JultodayJupiter square natal Pluto
- Sun 19 Julin 5 daysMars opposition natal Uranus
- Mon 20 Julin 7 daysUranus square natal Mars
What is touching you most right now
The five transits carrying the most weight: major outer-planet contacts to personal points are weighted heaviest, then tightness of orb.
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Pluto
quincunxℹ natal Mars
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Pluto is making a quincunx to your natal Mars. Pluto is transformation. Death and rebirth. The function of the underworld. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, they share no natural relationship and must be consciously adjusted to one another, again and again.
How to navigate it
Pluto moves like demolition, compost, a deep dive: let what is false die so what is true can regrow. The friction is the point. Pluto is pressure-testing your Mars. Rather than bracing against it, let what is no longer working give way, and rebuild that part of your life on purpose. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
2
Neptune
quincunxℹ natal Mars
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Neptune is making a quincunx to your natal Mars. Neptune is the function of dissolution. Imagination. The boundary between the personal and the universal. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, they share no natural relationship and must be consciously adjusted to one another, again and again.
How to navigate it
Neptune moves like fog rolling in past the edges of a photograph: stop demanding a hard edge where there is a genuine blur, and trust what you sense before you can prove it. The friction is the point. Neptune is pressure-testing your Mars. Rather than bracing against it, let what is no longer working give way, and rebuild that part of your life on purpose. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
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Uranus
squareℹ natal Mars
The feeling
Your actions keep getting disrupted and your temper runs short. Frustration spikes into sudden impulse. You want to break free of something and the urge arrives faster than your judgment can check it. Accidents and outbursts hover close.
What it is asking
This is Uranus squaring your Mars, friction between your will and the need for radical freedom. It asks whether you can act on your authentic drive without recklessness, and where suppressed energy is about to blow. The volatility is pressure that needs a conscious outlet.
Gravity & hope
Give the energy somewhere deliberate to go before it goes off on its own. The square carries explosive force, useful when aimed, dangerous when not. Channel it into a real act of liberation and it works for you.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Uranus is making a square to your natal Mars. Uranus is the function of awakening. Sudden change. The frequency of the new. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, they meet at a right angle of friction; the tension is uncomfortable, and it is also one of the strongest engines of growth in the chart.
How to navigate it
Uranus moves like lightning, a firmware update, a plot twist: break the pattern, try the weird angle. The friction is the point. Uranus is pressure-testing your Mars. Rather than bracing against it, let what is no longer working give way, and rebuild that part of your life on purpose. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
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Venus
conjunctionℹ natal Mars
The feeling
This week, something is sitting right on top of your drive and ambition, impossible to look past.
What it is asking
This is love arriving at full strength, fused with the part of you it touches. The gift is connection. The cost, if you resist it, is indulgence that misses the mark. You do not get to ignore this one. You get to decide how you meet it.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Venus is making a conjunction to your natal Mars. Venus is the function of love. What is valued. How beauty is recognized and pleasure is received. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, the two functions are fused into a single blended force; where one moves, the other moves with it.
How to navigate it
Venus moves like the right song arriving at the right moment: let yourself want what you want, plainly. Venus is fused onto your Mars for this passage, colouring that whole function. Author the change consciously rather than being carried by it. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
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Mercury
sextileℹ natal Mercury
The feeling
This week there is a quiet opportunity around your how you think and speak, easy to miss if you are not looking.
What it is asking
This is thought arriving as an offer, the sextile that asks for a small effort in exchange for real movement. Nothing forces your hand here. But if you reach, the universe meets you halfway.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Mercury is making a sextile to your natal Mercury. Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. Natal Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. Through this contact, an open, easy channel runs between them; the cooperation is available, though it asks to be actively used.
How to navigate it
Mercury moves like a new tab opening in the mind: have the conversation, send the message, name the thought out loud. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Mercury is available to your Mercury now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
The year ahead
Every transit from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto that goes exact in the next twelve months: the dates the major influences peak. A planet that hits the same point more than once is crossing back over it in retrograde.
These exact hits are the year's activations: each date marks when a slow planet turns on part of your chart. Transits to your Lord of the Year (Mars) or your profected 5th house carry extra weight for the themes of your house year.
July 2026
- 26 JulMars square natal Mercury
August 2026
- 2 AugMars sextile natal Venus
- 2 AugMars square natal Sun
- 3 AugJupiter opposition natal Jupiter
- 10 AugMars trine natal Moon
- 12 AugMars opposition natal Neptune
- 16 AugMars trine natal Pluto
- 18 AugMars sextile natal Mars
- 20 AugSaturn trine natal Uranus
September 2026
- 3 SepJupiter trine natal Uranus
- 10 SepMars sextile natal Mercury
- 17 SepMars trine natal Saturn
- 18 SepMars sextile natal Sun
- 26 SepMars square natal Moon
- 30 SepPluto square natal Pluto
October 2026
- 3 OctMars square natal Pluto
- 11 OctMars opposition natal Jupiter
- 23 OctMars trine natal Uranus
- 26 OctJupiter square natal Saturn
- 30 OctJupiter conjunction natal Venus
- 31 OctPluto square natal Pluto
November 2026
- 2 NovUranus square natal Mars
- 11 NovMars square natal Saturn
- 12 NovMars conjunction natal Venus
- 24 NovMars sextile natal Moon
- 28 NovMars trine natal Neptune
December 2026
- 4 DecMars sextile natal Pluto
- 8 DecMars conjunction natal Mars
January 2027
- 25 JanJupiter conjunction natal Venus
- 29 JanJupiter square natal Saturn
February 2027
- 9 FebMars conjunction natal Mars
- 13 FebMars sextile natal Pluto
- 19 FebMars trine natal Neptune
- 23 FebMars sextile natal Moon
March 2027
- 9 MarMars conjunction natal Venus
- 11 MarSaturn trine natal Uranus
- 11 MarMars square natal Saturn
April 2027
- 23 AprMars square natal Saturn
- 26 AprMars conjunction natal Venus
May 2027
- 7 MayUranus square natal Mars
- 12 MayMars sextile natal Moon
- 16 MayMars trine natal Neptune
- 22 MayMars sextile natal Pluto
- 26 MayMars conjunction natal Mars
June 2027
- 2 JunSaturn trine natal Venus
- 15 JunMars square natal Uranus
- 22 JunJupiter square natal Saturn
- 25 JunJupiter conjunction natal Venus
- 26 JunMars conjunction natal Mercury
- 27 JunUranus trine natal Jupiter
July 2027
- 3 JulMars sextile natal Saturn
- 5 JulMars conjunction natal Sun
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