profection year
Year of the 1st house ·
Venus
Age 24. The active house carries
Taurus on its cusp, and the year
lord is Venus: currently transiting
Virgo 4°44'
in your 4th house
.
Personal cycles · Isa (STAYC)
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 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 clockAries
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of new beginnings and the urge to assert yourself. Feelings run hot and forward. You are learning to want openly and to start.
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.
today
What the sky is doing right now
The Moon is in Cancer
15°52' · transiting your
3rd 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 24.47.
Progressed Moon · age 24.47
Aries 14°
45'
· 11th house
Progressed lunation:
Crescent
· Building. The first pushback against the old, the first real risks on the new direction.
An emotional season of new beginnings and the urge to assert yourself. Feelings run hot and forward. You are learning to want openly and to start.
March 21 to April 19. Cardinal fire. Ruled by Mars.
where it lands
Friends. Community. The group. The future. The hopes and wishes.
natal contacts
- trine natal Pluto 2.0°
- sextile natal Mercury 2.0°
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.
July 23, 2026
opposition
Jupiter opposition
Venus
August 2, 2026
trine
Uranus trine
Venus
October 21, 2026
trine
Uranus trine
Venus
January 23, 2027
conjunction
Pluto conjunction
Venus
April 19, 2027
sextile
Neptune sextile
Venus
May 14, 2027
trine
Uranus trine
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 6, 2026
In 23 days. The return Moon lands in your
2nd house with
Pisces rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-01-22 23:41 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
First Saturn Return
Peak October 18, 2030 ·
age 28.7. 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.
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 27°46'
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 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Neptune
(4th house) · orb
1.7°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Mercury
(4th house) · orb
2.8°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
conjunction your Venus
(9th house) · orb
1.1°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
conjunction your Neptune
(9th house) · orb
2.1°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
conjunction your Sun
(9th house) · orb
3.2°
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
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°.
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