Live sky:☽ Moon in Cancerwaning balsamic · 1% 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 · Freddie Mercury
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 clockSagittarius
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of expansion and meaning. The need is for freedom, horizon, and the bigger picture. A restless, optimistic stretch, reaching beyond the known.
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.
8°48' · transiting your
2nd 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 ·
Jupiter
Age 79. The active house carries
Sagittarius on its cusp, and the year
lord is Jupiter: currently transiting
Leo 2°53'
in your 3rd 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
79.85.
Progressed Moon · age 79.85
Sagittarius 12°
03'
· 7th house
Progressed lunation:
New Moon
· Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
An emotional season of expansion and meaning. The need is for freedom, horizon, and the bigger picture. A restless, optimistic stretch, reaching beyond the known.
November 22 to December 21. Mutable fire. Ruled by Jupiter.
where it lands
Partnership. The other. Marriage. Open enemies. The mirror.
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.
November 20, 2026
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Jupiter
January 4, 2027
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Jupiter
June 25, 2027
opposition
Saturn opposition
Jupiter
July 6, 2027
sextile
Jupiter sextile
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 27, 2026
In 14 days. The return Moon lands in your
6th house with
Cancer rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak May 16, 2028 ·
age 81.7. 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.
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
Sagittarius 1°47'
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.
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 Mercury
(10th house) · orb
0.8°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your Mercury
(4th house) · orb
2.0°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Pluto
(3rd house) · orb
2.4°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
opposition your Saturn
(9th house) · orb
2.0°
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
3rd house.
until December 12, 2026
℞Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
11th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
9th 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°.
