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 · Caleb McLaughlin
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 24
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 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 clockLeo
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of warmth and self-expression. The need is to be seen, to create, to shine. A more confident, outward stretch, learning to take up space.
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.
15°50' · 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.
profection year
Year of the 1st house ·
Jupiter
Age 24. The active house carries
Sagittarius on its cusp, and the year
lord is Jupiter: currently transiting
Leo 2°59'
in your 8th 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
24.75.
Progressed Moon · age 24.75
Leo 0°
48'
· 8th house
Progressed lunation:
Disseminating
· Sharing what was learned. Teaching, mentoring, integration.
An emotional season of warmth and self-expression. The need is to be seen, to create, to shine. A more confident, outward stretch, learning to take up space.
July 23 to August 22. Fixed fire. Ruled by the Sun.
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.
Transits to your year lord
(Jupiter) 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.
March 17, 2027
square
Saturn square
Jupiter
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 17, 2026
In 3 days. The return Moon lands in your
1st house with
Leo rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak June 21, 2031 ·
age 29.7. 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
Scorpio 15°03'
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
Disseminating
Sharing what was learned. Teaching, mentoring, integration.
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 Uranus
(8th house) · orb
1.0°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
conjunction your Black Moon Lilith
(3rd house) · orb
0.9°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
opposition your Moon
(3rd house) · orb
1.9°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Uranus
(2nd house) · orb
3.4°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
opposition your Mars
(7th house) · orb
0.9°
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
7th 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°.
