profection year
Year of the 11th house ·
Mars
Age 82. The active house carries
Aries on its cusp, and the year
lord is Mars: currently transiting
Gemini 10°43'
in your 11th house
.
Personal cycles · Joni Mitchell
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 82
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 10 of 12 (closing)
The closing stretch before the next Jupiter return. The current cycle of growth is winding down, making room for the new one about to begin. A good time to take stock of how far you have come since the last return, twelve years back.
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 clock11th house year
By annual profection you are in an 11th-house year of community and future. friends, allies, audiences, networks, and the future you are building with other people. an 11th-house year favours community, causes, group projects, and the question of who gets access to you. Look at the sign on your 11th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
And the generational waves firing now
The Uranus Return ages 82-86
Around eighty-four, Uranus completes its full circle and returns home, a rare late-life awakening that few charts reach. It can bring a final liberation, a freedom that no longer cares what anyone thinks. The full arc of the most independent planet, completed.
today
What the sky is doing right now
The Moon is in Cancer
15°50' · transiting your
12th 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 82.68.
Progressed Moon · age 82.68
Aries 7°
17'
· 10th 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
The public. The career. The legacy. The mountain.
natal contacts
- sextile natal Uranus 0.4°
- trine natal Pluto 1.5°
year-lord transits
The year's loudest weather
Transits to your year lord (Mars) 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 11, 2026
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Mars
February 16, 2027
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Mars
May 7, 2027
sextile
Saturn sextile
Mars
June 7, 2027
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Mars
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 2, 2026
In 19 days. The return Moon lands in your
9th house with
Cancer rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-11-07 06:53 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
Third Saturn Return
Peak June 11, 2032 ·
age 88.6. Saturn completes its third full circle. Few lives reach it; those that do meet a quiet, total review. The friction, if it is friction at all, is acceptance. It is the gathering of the whole story into something that can be passed on.
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 8°49'
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 Black Moon Lilith
(2nd house) · orb
1.4°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
opposition your Black Moon Lilith
(8th house) · orb
1.0°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Pluto
(2nd house) · orb
1.2°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your North Node
(2nd house) · orb
1.3°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your South Node
(2nd house) · orb
1.3°
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
1st house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
10th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
7th 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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