profection year
Year of the 7th house ·
Venus
Age 18. The active house carries
Taurus on its cusp, and the year
lord is Venus: currently transiting
Virgo 4°50'
in your 10th house
.
Personal cycles · Ariana Greenblatt
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 18
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 First Saturn Opposition
Saturn now opposes its birth position, around ages fourteen to fifteen, and adulthood begins pressing on you before you are ready. Authority and responsibility intensify, often felt as pressure from the adult world. The push and pull of becoming someone gets real here.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 6 of 12 (opposition)
The midpoint of the Jupiter cycle, when Jupiter opposes where it began. The growth you started six years ago comes to a head, for fulfillment or for the realization that you over-expanded. A year of Jupiter culmination, harvest or correction.
The Nodes · the karmic clocknodal return
You are at or near a nodal return, which happens roughly every nineteen years, around ages nineteen, thirty-seven, fifty-six, and seventy-four. The lunar nodes have come back to where they began, and the themes of your soul's direction come up for renewal. These are years when the question of where you are growing toward, and what you are leaving behind, gets loud again. Fated-feeling encounters and turning points cluster here.
Progressed Moon · the emotional clockCancer
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of deepening feeling and homing instinct. The need is for safety, belonging, and care. A tender, inward stretch, tending the roots and the heart.
Profection · the annual clock7th house year
By annual profection you are in a 7th-house year of partnership. partners, clients, contracts, open enemies, and every mirror that shows you what you project. a 7th-house year makes relationship the curriculum: marriage, divorce, business partnerships, legal binds, the other. Look at the sign on your 7th 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
17°06' · transiting your
9th 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 18.91.
Progressed Moon · age 18.91
Cancer 1°
29'
· 8th house
Progressed lunation:
Last Quarter
· Restructuring. Breaking down what no longer fits the next cycle.
An emotional season of deepening feeling and homing instinct. The need is for safety, belonging, and care. A tender, inward stretch, tending the roots and the heart.
June 21 to July 22. Cardinal water. Ruled by the Moon.
where it lands
Death. Sex. Other people's money. The merging. The transformation.
natal contacts
No tight natal contacts right now: a quieter inner passage.
year-lord transits
The year's loudest weather
Transits to your year lord (Venus) 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 8, 2026
conjunction
Jupiter conjunction
Venus
January 16, 2027
conjunction
Jupiter conjunction
Venus
June 12, 2027
trine
Saturn trine
Venus
July 1, 2027
conjunction
Jupiter conjunction
Venus
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 20, 2026
In 7 days. The return Moon lands in your
1st house with
Virgo rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-08-17 06:11 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
Closing Square
Peak May 16, 2030 ·
age 22.7. The closing square of the first cycle is the crisis of early adulthood: the end of education, the first job, the first time the scaffolding other people built gets taken away. The friction is real responsibility arriving a little before you feel ready to hold it.
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
Virgo 12°38'
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
Last Quarter
Restructuring. Breaking down what no longer fits the next cycle.
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 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
opposition your Neptune
(10th house) · orb
0.5°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
conjunction your North Node
(4th house) · orb
2.2°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
opposition your South Node
(4th house) · orb
2.2°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Neptune
(4th house) · orb
2.9°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Chiron
(10th house) · orb
2.5°
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°03'
Mercury retrograding through your
9th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
5th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
3rd 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°.
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