profection year
Year of the 7th house ·
Venus
Age 30. The active house carries
Libra on its cusp, and the year
lord is Venus: currently transiting
Virgo 4°44'
in your 6th house
.
Personal cycles · Caedrel
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Between major cycle peaks.
no return or hard threshold is close. middle of a chapter.
See your full timeline →Asteria · every clock at once, age 30
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 Return
Saturn has come home to where it began, around age twenty-nine, the great threshold of young adulthood and the most defining passage of your life so far. Everything built by default gets weighed. What is truly yours becomes yours on purpose, and what was borrowed comes apart so something truer can be built. You are signing your own name to your life.
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 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 clockGemini
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of curiosity and connection. The need is for stimulation, conversation, and variety. A social, mentally restless stretch, gathering and learning.
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
15°50' · 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.
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 30.53.
Progressed Moon · age 30.53
Gemini 19°
57'
· 3rd house
Progressed lunation:
First Quarter
· Friction and trial-and-error. Action taken under pressure; the new direction tested.
An emotional season of curiosity and connection. The need is for stimulation, conversation, and variety. A social, mentally restless stretch, gathering and learning.
May 21 to June 20. Mutable air. Ruled by Mercury.
where it lands
The mind. The local world. Siblings, neighbors, the school, the daily exchange.
natal contacts
- square natal Saturn 0.6°
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.
August 24, 2026
opposition
Jupiter opposition
Venus
September 25, 2026
sextile
Saturn sextile
Venus
February 19, 2027
sextile
Saturn sextile
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
August 5, 2026
In 23 days. The return Moon lands in your
1st house with
Pisces rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-12-31 00:41 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
Opening Square
Peak December 13, 2031 ·
age 36.0. The opening square of the second cycle pushes you to commit to what the Return rebuilt. The choices made around thirty now demand follow-through. The friction is between momentum and the patient, unglamorous work of making a thing genuinely solid.
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
Aquarius 10°25'
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.
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 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Part of Fortune
(5th house) · orb
0.4°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Venus
(5th house) · orb
2.1°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
opposition your Mars
(5th house) · orb
2.3°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
opposition your Neptune
(5th house) · orb
3.2°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
opposition your Part of Fortune
(11th house) · orb
3.4°
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
4th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
12th 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°.
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