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7580 AGE → CYCLE Saturn29-YEAR CYCLESetting Down the WeightProfection12-YEAR RING71 TODAY · 79.5Y
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 · David Bowie
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 79

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 7 of 12 (waning)

The waning years of the Jupiter cycle. The expansion matures and you live out what it built. The reaching slows, and the work turns to consolidating the growth rather than chasing more of it.

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 clock8th house year

By annual profection you are in an 8th-house year of depth and transformation. shared money, inheritance, debt, sex, grief, and the places life gets irrevocable. an 8th-house year rarely stays polite: mergers, taxes, therapy, endings, power, what you inherit emotionally and literally. Look at the sign on your 8th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.

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today

What the sky is doing right now

The Moon is in Cancer
8°45' · transiting your 5th 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 8th house · Venus
Age 79. The active house carries Libra on its cusp, and the year lord is Venus: currently transiting Virgo 4°13' in your 7th house .
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 79.51.

Progressed Moon · age 79.51
Gemini 26° 57' · 5th house
Progressed lunation: Crescent · Building. The first pushback against the old, the first real risks on the new direction.

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

Creation. Play. Pleasure. Children. The radiance of the self.

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.

October 29, 2026
trine
Neptune trine Venus
January 6, 2027
opposition
Uranus opposition Venus
January 25, 2027
trine
Neptune trine Venus
March 13, 2027
opposition
Uranus opposition 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 15, 2026
In 2 days. The return Moon lands in your 1st house with Cancer rising on the return chart. That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-01-07 13:17 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 November 11, 2028 · age 81.8. The closing square of the third cycle is a long releasing. Responsibilities, possessions and roles are handed on. The friction is trusting that what you built can stand without you holding 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
Aries 7°21'
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
Crescent
Building. The first pushback against the old, the first real risks on the new direction.
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'
conjunction your Part of Fortune (7th house) · orb 0.0°
August 28, 2026
Lunar Pisces 4°54'
opposition your Vertex (1st house) · orb 2.4°
February 6, 2027
Solar Aquarius 17°38'
opposition your Part of Fortune (1st house) · orb 2.4°
August 2, 2027
Solar Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Pluto (7th house) · orb 2.8°
August 2, 2027
Solar Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Saturn (7th 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°24'
Mercury retrograding through your 6th house.
until December 12, 2026
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your 2nd house.
until October 16, 2026
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your 1st 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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