Live sky:☽ Moon in Cancerwaning balsamic · 0% littoday's shared mood.
Every active cycle on one rail. The bright vertical is today; pegs are exact events; faint patches are the orbs around each event.Personal cycles · Alexis Mac Allister
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 27
All the clocks running.
A life is not one clock. It is several, running at different speeds at once. This reads where you stand on each.
Saturn · the maturation clockThe Closing Square
Saturn makes its last square before coming home, around ages twenty-one to twenty-two, and the casual approach to adulthood begins to run out of road. You start being asked to take real ownership. The first return is now on the horizon, and you can feel it coming.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 3 of 12 (first quarter)
The first-quarter stretch of the Jupiter cycle. The early growth meets its first reality check, the place where expansion has to prove it can hold. Opportunity is still here, but it now asks for substance behind the optimism.
The Nodes · the karmic clocknodal reversal
You are near a nodal reversal, the halfway point of the nineteen-year cycle, around ages nine, twenty-eight, forty-six, and sixty-five. The nodes have swung to the opposite of their birth position, which can feel like being pulled toward the very things you usually avoid. It is a course-correction in the soul's direction, often uncomfortable, often necessary.
Progressed Moon · the emotional clockPisces
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of dissolving and dreaming. The need is for rest, compassion, and the boundless. A soft, impressionable stretch of letting go before the cycle renews.
Profection · the annual clock4th house year
By annual profection you are in a 4th-house year of home and roots. home, parents, ancestry, land, and the private self behind the public face. a 4th-house year pulls you inward: moves, renovations, family crises or reconciliations, memory, the need to belong somewhere. Look at the sign on your 4th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
15°52' · transiting your
4th house. Phase:
Balsamic · the release.
The mini-wheel to the right
drops today's transiting planets onto your natal house
ring. Each glyph is colour-coded; hover any of them for
its sign and degree.
profection year
Year of the 4th house ·
Mercury
Age 27. The active house carries
Gemini on its cusp, and the year
lord is Mercury: currently transiting
Cancer 20°06'
in your 5th house
(℞).
The Progressed Moon moves about one sign every two and a half
years. It is the slow inner weather underneath your profection
year: the felt season you are actually living in, age
27.55.
Progressed Moon · age 27.55
Pisces 13°
53'
· 12th house
Progressed lunation:
New Moon
· Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
An emotional season of dissolving and dreaming. The need is for rest, compassion, and the boundless. A soft, impressionable stretch of letting go before the cycle renews.
February 19 to March 20. Mutable water. Ruled by Neptune. Co-ruled traditionally by Jupiter.
where it lands
The hidden. The unconscious. The retreat. The dissolution. The behind-the-scenes life.
Transits to your year lord
(Mercury) over the next
12 months. In Hellenistic practice these are the year's most
significant interpretive events: the planet ruling the year
gets hit, and the year gets re-shaped accordingly.
August 21, 2026
trine
Jupiter trine
Mercury
October 1, 2026
trine
Saturn trine
Mercury
February 14, 2027
trine
Saturn trine
Mercury
returns
The cycles you're inside right now
Every planet completes a return when it comes back to where
it sat at your birth. The Moon returns monthly, the Sun
annually, Saturn every 29.5 years. Each return casts a fresh
chart for that moment: a smaller chart inside the natal,
shaping the period until the next.
Lunar Return
August 1, 2026
In 18 days. The return Moon lands in your
9th house with
Taurus rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak September 14, 2027 ·
age 28.7. Saturn comes back to where it stood at your birth. This is the cycle's headline: the years the life assembled through your twenties is audited. What was built to please others, or built on no real foundation, tends to crack: a job, a relationship, a city, a self-image. The friction is being asked, often for the first time, to become your own authority and rebuild on your own terms.
Secondary progressions (day-for-a-year) quietly redraw the
chart every few years. The Progressed Sun marks the long
phase; the progressed lunation phase places both within the
inner cycle of becoming and releasing. Your Progressed Moon
is read above, right under your profection year.
Progressed Sun
Aquarius 0°40'
Where your inner self has slowly walked to since birth.
The Progressed Sun spends about 30 years per sign; sign
changes mark the chart's major life-phase boundaries.
progressed lunation
New Moon
Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
Solar and Lunar Eclipses within roughly the next eighteen
months that fall within orb of a natal placement. Eclipses
are pulse points: the event a year hangs off of, the
activation of whatever the eclipse degree sits on.
August 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
conjunction your Vertex
(6th house) · orb
0.8°
August 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
conjunction your North Node
(6th house) · orb
3.2°
August 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
opposition your South Node
(6th house) · orb
3.2°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
opposition your Vertex
(11th house) · orb
3.2°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Uranus
(5th house) · orb
0.7°
retrogrades now
Planets currently retrograde
Bodies that are moving backward through the zodiac as seen
from Earth, and the natal house each is currently rolling
through. Retrograde isn't a problem; it's an inward pass:
a re-encounter with what the planet already knows.
until July 23, 2026
℞Cancer 20°06'
Mercury retrograding through your
5th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
1st house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
11th house.
retrogrades ahead
Mercury, Venus, and Mars windows in the next 12 months
The inner-to-mid planets that retrograde often enough to
plan around. Each window is bounded by the two stations:
station-retrograde opens it, station-direct closes it.
July 13, 2026 → July 23, 2026
℞Cancer
Mercury stations retrograde at
Cancer 20° and turns
direct at Cancer 16°.
October 3, 2026 → November 14, 2026
℞Scorpio → Libra
Venus stations retrograde at
Scorpio 8° and turns
direct at Libra 22°.
October 24, 2026 → November 13, 2026
℞Scorpio
Mercury stations retrograde at
Scorpio 20° and turns
direct at Scorpio 5°.
January 10, 2027 → April 1, 2027
℞Virgo → Leo
Mars stations retrograde at
Virgo 10° and turns
direct at Leo 20°.
February 9, 2027 → March 3, 2027
℞Pisces → Aquarius
Mercury stations retrograde at
Pisces 5° and turns
direct at Aquarius 20°.
June 10, 2027 → July 4, 2027
℞Cancer → Gemini
Mercury stations retrograde at
Cancer 6° and turns
direct at Gemini 27°.
