profection year
Year of the 12th house ·
Mars
Age 71. The active house carries
Scorpio on its cusp, and the year
lord is Mars: currently transiting
Gemini 10°43'
in your 6th house
.
Personal cycles · Angela Merkel
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 72
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 Third Cycle
You are in your third Saturn cycle, the elder phase, where the work shifts from building to distilling. Saturn's lessons are no longer about climbing but about what the climb was for, and the authority you carry was earned across a whole life.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 0 of 12 (return)
A Jupiter return year. Roughly every twelve years Jupiter comes home, and a new cycle of growth and opportunity opens. This is a year to plant for the next twelve, to say yes to expansion, to reach for the larger version of your life. Doors that were shut tend to 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 clock1st house year
By annual profection you are in a 1st-house year of self and fresh starts. the spotlight lands on you: body, name, presence, the way you enter a room. this is the year's front door. health flares, image shifts, identity experiments, the urge to reinvent how you look or move or introduce yourself. people read you differently; you may feel pushed to show up as someone new. Look at the sign on your 1st house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
today
What the sky is doing right now
The Moon is in Cancer
15°52' · transiting your
7th 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.
Progressed Moon
Your inner emotional season
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 71.99.
Progressed Moon · age 71.99
Libra 11°
11'
· 9th house
Progressed lunation:
New Moon
· Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
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 wide world. Philosophy. Long-distance travel. The search for meaning.
natal contacts
- square natal Jupiter 1.0°
- square natal Mercury 1.9°
year-lord transits
The year's loudest weather
Transits to your year lord (Mars) 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.
November 26, 2026
trine
Jupiter trine
Mars
December 29, 2026
trine
Jupiter trine
Mars
July 1, 2027
trine
Saturn trine
Mars
July 8, 2027
trine
Jupiter trine
Mars
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 30, 2026
In 16 days. The return Moon lands in your
5th house with
Virgo rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-07-17 02:00 UTC
This year's birthday-aligned chart cast at the moment the
Sun returned to its natal degree. The Solar Return ASC
and MC frame the year's theme.
saturn cycle
Opposition
Peak May 4, 2028 ·
age 73.8. Saturn's final opposition brings a wide, clear view of the whole arc. What you built meets the world once more, now mostly through the people and the work you have influenced. The friction is meaning: making peace with the shape of the life, and with what can no longer be changed.
progressions
Where your inner clock has walked to
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
Libra 4°01'
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.
eclipses ahead
Eclipses that touch your chart
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 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
opposition your Venus
(2nd house) · orb
0.1°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Moon
(2nd house) · orb
2.5°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your Venus
(8th house) · orb
2.9°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
conjunction your Uranus
(8th house) · orb
2.0°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
conjunction your Sun
(8th house) · orb
3.1°
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
8th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
3rd house.
until October 16, 2026
℞
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
2nd 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°.
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