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 · Keith Richards
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 clockVirgo
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of refinement and tending. The need is for order, usefulness, and improving the daily. A quieter, work-focused stretch of putting things right.
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.
15°50' · 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 11th house ·
Saturn
Age 82. The active house carries
Capricorn on its cusp, and the year
lord is Saturn: currently transiting
Aries 14°37'
in your 1st 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
82.57.
Progressed Moon · age 82.57
Virgo 19°
26'
· 7th house
Progressed lunation:
Full Moon
· Culmination and exposure. Peak visibility, realisations, turning points.
An emotional season of refinement and tending. The need is for order, usefulness, and improving the daily. A quieter, work-focused stretch of putting things right.
August 23 to September 22. Mutable earth. Ruled by Mercury.
where it lands
Partnership. The other. Marriage. Open enemies. The mirror.
natal contacts
No tight natal contacts right now: a quieter inner passage.
Transits to your year lord
(Saturn) 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 21, 2026
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Saturn
February 4, 2027
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Saturn
May 21, 2027
sextile
Saturn sextile
Saturn
June 18, 2027
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Saturn
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 4 days. The return Moon lands in your
8th house with
Sagittarius rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak October 15, 2031 ·
age 87.8. 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.
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
Pisces 19°20'
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
Full Moon
Culmination and exposure. Peak visibility, realisations, turning points.
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
(7th house) · orb
3.0°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Pluto
(6th house) · orb
1.5°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your North Node
(6th house) · orb
2.4°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your South Node
(6th house) · orb
2.4°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
opposition your North Node
(12th house) · orb
1.4°
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
6th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
1st house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
12th 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°.
