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 · Andrew Ng
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 50
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 Saturn Opposition at Midlife
Saturn again opposes its birth position, around age forty-four, the honest audit at the midpoint of the whole cycle. The commitments of your first return are weighed without mercy. You stand at the top of a hill you started climbing at twenty-nine, and the view includes everything you have not done. Keep what still has a pulse.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 2 of 12 (opening)
The opening years of a Jupiter cycle. The growth begun at the last return is taking shape, and the mood is optimistic and forward-leaning. A good stretch to build on the expansion you reached for, while the door is still open.
The Nodes · the karmic clockmid-cycle
You are in the long stretch between the karmic turning points. The themes of growth and release set at the last nodal return are quietly unfolding. This is steady soul-development time rather than a turning point, the work between the hinges.
Progressed Moon · the emotional clockLibra
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season turned toward others and balance. The need is for relationship, harmony, and fairness. A relational stretch, learning yourself through partnership.
Profection · the annual clock3rd house year
By annual profection you are in a 3rd-house year of mind and communication. words, messages, neighbours, siblings, short trips, courses, and the local world within driving distance. a 3rd-house year favours learning, writing, teaching, pitching, and fixing the small broken circuits in daily life. Look at the sign on your 3rd house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
17°05' · transiting your
12th 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 3rd house ·
Mercury
Age 50. The active house carries
Virgo on its cusp, and the year
lord is Mercury: currently transiting
Cancer 20°03'
in your 12th 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
50.24.
Progressed Moon · age 50.24
Libra 15°
54'
· 4th house
Progressed lunation:
First Quarter
· Friction and trial-and-error. Action taken under pressure; the new direction tested.
An emotional season turned toward others and balance. The need is for relationship, harmony, and fairness. A relational stretch, learning yourself through partnership.
September 23 to October 22. Cardinal air. Ruled by Venus.
where it lands
The home. The roots. The family. The ground beneath the feet.
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.
September 8, 2026
square
Jupiter square
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
July 26, 2026
In 12 days. The return Moon lands in your
7th house with
Gemini rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak September 20, 2027 ·
age 51.4. The closing square of the second cycle clears away what is finished. Roles and ambitions that have done their work, and some that quietly never worked, ask to be set down. The friction is releasing an identity before the next Return asks who you are without it.
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
Gemini 17°02'
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
First Quarter
Friction and trial-and-error. Action taken under pressure; the new direction tested.
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°03'
Mercury retrograding through your
12th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
9th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
6th 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 14, 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°.
