sextile
Uranus sextileℹ
natal Mars
Uranus moves like lightning, a firmware update, a plot twist: break the pattern, try the weird angle.
Today on your chart · the day's weather
what's active now, and the shifts ahead. Monday, 13 July 2026 · 12:44 UTC. Transiting Uranus is making a sextile to your natal Mars. Collective sky (no chart): Sky.
Contacts on the day
applying left of now, separating to the right. tighter orbs sit closer to the gold marker.
11 contacts live against this chart · orb window ±6°
Asteria · the week, in one read
The loudest thing in your sky this week is drive, pressing against your sense of who you are. Day to day, the Moon colors it with a tender, inward pull. Pluto is retrograde, asking you to revisit where power and shadow live.
The day in layers
A quick read of what is loudest today, what else is active, where slow planets are working in your chart, and the longer emotional season underneath.
- Right nowMars grinds against your Sun (core identity and vitality): friction: uncomfortable, productive if you work it
- Season underneathProgressed Moon in Taurus: A season of settling, when the need is for security, comfort, and steadiness
8thhouse year
your profection year
A 8th-house year · age 43
Annual profections move the spotlight one house each year. At age 43, yours rests on the 8th house: death. sex. other people's money. the merging. the transformation.
The sign on that house is Capricorn, so its ruler is your Lord of the Year. Saturn (retrograde) sits in Scorpio in your 5th house. Wherever the Lord of the Year sits is where this year's story concentrates. And transits to it (below) carry extra weight until your next birthday.
In your chart: the sign on your 8th-house cusp and the year lord: your natal threshold for intimacy and risk.
the year lord is Saturn: structure, limits, and what must be earned. Saturn transits feel heavier when Saturn steers the year; they are the curriculum, not the punishment.
the next 90 days
What is loud right now
The sky sorted by volume: each bar spans the transit's active window; today is marked in gold. The three loudest contacts are named before you scroll the week and year timelines.
Loudest · 01
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Pluto square natal Saturn
Transiting Pluto is making a square to your natal Saturn.
Exact · 2026-07-31
Loudest · 02
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Pluto sextile natal Mars
Transiting Pluto is making a sextile to your natal Mars.
Exact · 2026-08-24
Loudest · 03
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Neptune conjunction natal Mars
Transiting Neptune is making a conjunction to your natal Mars.
Exact · 2026-09-01
The Moon, on you
Moon in Cancer
· passing through your
2nd house
tightest contactMoon quincunx natal Uranus · orb 0.2°
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Mon 13
charged
1
Tue 14
quiet
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Wed 15
quiet
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Thu 16
open
2
Fri 17
quiet
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Sat 18
charged
1
Sun 19
quiet
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The sky pivoting
The turns worth marking on your chart: eclipses that supercharge a degree, every new and Full Moon and the house each one lands in, and planets moving in reverse through your houses.
New & Full Moons ahead
Each lunation lands in one of your natal houses: the area of life it opens (new) or brings to a head (full).
- 14 Jul 2026New Moon in 21° CancerBegins in your 2nd house · your money, your values, your sense of worth. Plant a seed for stability and self-respect.
- 29 Jul 2026Full Moon in 6° AquariusIlluminates your 9th house · A journey, a study or a long search culminates. You arrive somewhere: in mind, in belief, or in fact.
- 12 Aug 2026New Moon in 20° LeoBegins in your 3rd house · your mind, your words, your local world. Start a conversation, a class, a writing habit.
- 28 Aug 2026Full Moon in 4° PiscesIlluminates your 10th house · Work done quietly becomes visible: recognition, a milestone, a public turning point in your path.
- 11 Sep 2026New Moon in 18° VirgoBegins in your 4th house · home, family, your roots. Begin something at the foundation: the private base everything rests on.
- 26 Sep 2026Full Moon in 3° AriesIlluminates your 11th house · A hope or a shared effort reaches its result. See what the friendships and the wider net have actually grown.
- 10 Oct 2026New Moon in 17° LibraBegins in your 5th house · creativity, romance, play, what delights you. Start something joyful that is purely yours to make.
- 26 Oct 2026Full Moon in 2° TaurusIlluminates your 11th house · A hope or a shared effort reaches its result. See what the friendships and the wider net have actually grown.
Eclipses ahead
Each eclipse supercharges the degree it falls on for months either side. The ones that touch a natal point are the markers worth watching.
- 12 Aug 2026Total/Annular solar eclipse at 20°02′ Leolands on natal Mercury (opposition, 1.3° orb) · in your 3rd house
- 28 Aug 2026Partial lunar eclipse at 4°54′ Piscesfalls in your 10th house · no tight natal contact
- 6 Feb 2027Total/Annular solar eclipse at 17°38′ Aquariusfalls in your 9th house · no tight natal contact
- 20 Feb 2027Penumbral lunar eclipse at 2°06′ Virgofalls in your 4th house · no tight natal contact
Active retrogrades
Planets moving in reverse right now, framed by the natal house they're passing through. That's the department of your life the rethink is landing in.
Mercury retrograde · in your 2nd house
the conversation, the deals, the routes: all under review
Neptune retrograde · in your 11th house
dreams and dissolutions, turned inward; the fog thins, but only for the part of you that wants to see
Pluto retrograde · in your 9th house
transformation pulled deeper underground; the underworld work continues out of sight
The seven days ahead
Every Mars-through-Pluto transit that goes exact this week: the dates the heavy contacts peak.
- Mon 13 JultodayMars square natal Sun
- Fri 17 Julin 3 daysJupiter trine natal Mars
- Fri 17 Julin 3 daysMars trine natal Moon
- Sun 19 Julin 5 daysJupiter square natal Saturn
What is touching you most right now
The five transits carrying the most weight: major outer-planet contacts to personal points are weighted heaviest, then tightness of orb.
1
Uranus
sextileℹ natal Mars
The feeling
You want to move, but sideways: try the sport you have never tried, take the route you have never taken, pick the fight you would normally avoid picking. The itch is playful, not desperate.
What it is asking
This is Uranus lightly touching your Mars, an opening to act in an unfamiliar way without real risk. It asks you to spend the extra energy on something genuinely new rather than the usual outlet. The door is open; walking through it is optional and low-stakes.
Gravity & hope
Say yes to the odd impulse. This is a low-pressure window for trying a different kind of action, so use it to widen your range instead of repeating the same move harder.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Uranus is making a sextile to your natal Mars. Uranus is the function of awakening. Sudden change. The frequency of the new. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, an open, easy channel runs between them; the cooperation is available, though it asks to be actively used.
How to navigate it
Uranus moves like lightning, a firmware update, a plot twist: break the pattern, try the weird angle. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Uranus is available to your Mars now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
2
Neptune
conjunctionℹ natal Mars
The feeling
Your drive feels diffuse and hard to summon. The clear sense of what you want and how to get it dissolves into something foggier. Energy comes and goes like tide. You may feel strangely unmotivated, or pulled toward goals that are more spiritual than concrete.
What it is asking
This is Neptune crossing your Mars, dissolution meeting your will. It asks you to act from inspiration rather than ego, to surrender the need to force outcomes, and to let your drive serve something larger than yourself. The loss of ordinary motivation is redirecting your energy toward the meaningful.
Gravity & hope
Stop pushing the river and let it carry you somewhere truer. This is not the season for brute force, it is the season for inspired, surrendered action. Follow what genuinely moves you, and your energy finds a worthier direction.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Neptune is making a conjunction to your natal Mars. Neptune is the function of dissolution. Imagination. The boundary between the personal and the universal. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, the two functions are fused into a single blended force; where one moves, the other moves with it.
How to navigate it
Neptune moves like fog rolling in past the edges of a photograph: stop demanding a hard edge where there is a genuine blur, and trust what you sense before you can prove it. Neptune is fused onto your Mars for this passage, colouring that whole function. Author the change consciously rather than being carried by it. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
3
Jupiter
trineℹ natal Mars
The feeling
This week things feel unusually easy around your drive and ambition, a current moving in your favor.
What it is asking
This is expansion arriving as a gift, the open door of a trine. The only danger is wasting it by coasting. Grace you do not use evaporates. Spend this one on purpose, while the door is open.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Jupiter is making a trine to your natal Mars. Jupiter is expansion. Faith. The function of growth and the search for meaning. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, they flow together in natural, unforced agreement. A genuine gift, so smooth it can be taken for granted.
How to navigate it
Jupiter moves like a door propped open wider than you expected: say yes bigger than feels comfortable, then build the structure to hold it. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Jupiter is available to your Mars now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
4
Pluto
sextileℹ natal Mars
The feeling
Underneath the ordinary to-do list, you notice what you are actually still angry about, or actually still want. It surfaces calmly, in a quiet moment, not a blowup.
What it is asking
This is Pluto lightly touching your Mars, an easy window into what really drives you beneath the surface motions. It asks you to act from that deeper want just once, in something small, and see how it feels. No confrontation is required.
Gravity & hope
Let one small action come from the real want instead of the polite one. This is depth work with the door held open, not kicked in.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Pluto is making a sextile to your natal Mars. Pluto is transformation. Death and rebirth. The function of the underworld. Natal Mars is the engine. The will. The appetite. How action moves out of the body into the world. Through this contact, an open, easy channel runs between them; the cooperation is available, though it asks to be actively used.
How to navigate it
Pluto moves like demolition, compost, a deep dive: let what is false die so what is true can regrow. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Pluto is available to your Mars now. But a harmonious transit rewards what you reach for. Use it deliberately; do not wait for it to act on you. The transit is still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
5
Saturn
oppositionℹ natal Moon
The feeling
The people you lean on for comfort feel suddenly unavailable, or the demands of your outer life are pulling hard against what your heart actually needs. You feel stretched between obligation and the wish to simply be held.
What it is asking
This is Saturn opposing your Moon, the tension between duty and need showing up through relationships and circumstance. It asks you to honor your emotional reality without using it as an excuse, and to meet your responsibilities without abandoning yourself in them.
Gravity & hope
The negotiation between what you owe and what you need is the whole work here. Neither side gets to win completely. Learn to feed your heart and keep your commitments, and you stop having to choose.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Saturn is making a opposition to your natal Moon. Saturn is discipline. Structure. The function of limitation, mastery, and time. Natal Moon is the inner emotional body. The firmware running before consciousness boots up. Through this contact, they sit across a polarity, each pulling the other; the work is to hold both ends rather than collapse into one.
How to navigate it
Saturn moves like scaffolding going up around a building mid-renovation: do the unglamorous work now that the future self will thank you for. The friction is the point. Saturn is pressure-testing your Moon. Rather than bracing against it, let what is no longer working give way, and rebuild that part of your life on purpose. The transit is separating: past its peak; the task now is integrating what it has already surfaced.
The year ahead
Every transit from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto that goes exact in the next twelve months: the dates the major influences peak. A planet that hits the same point more than once is crossing back over it in retrograde.
These exact hits are the year's activations: each date marks when a slow planet turns on part of your chart. Transits to your Lord of the Year (Saturn) or your profected 8th house carry extra weight for the themes of your house year.
July 2026
- 29 JulMars trine natal Mercury
- 31 JulPluto square natal Saturn
August 2026
- 7 AugJupiter trine natal Venus
- 9 AugMars opposition natal Neptune
- 10 AugMars trine natal Pluto
- 10 AugJupiter trine natal Uranus
- 14 AugJupiter trine natal Jupiter
- 16 AugMars square natal Mars
- 17 AugMars trine natal Saturn
- 24 AugMars square natal Venus
- 24 AugPluto sextile natal Mars
- 27 AugMars trine natal Sun
- 27 AugJupiter sextile natal Moon
- 31 AugMars square natal Moon
September 2026
- 1 SepNeptune conjunction natal Mars
- 14 SepSaturn opposition natal Moon
- 26 SepMars square natal Pluto
October 2026
- 4 OctMars trine natal Mars
- 5 OctMars square natal Saturn
- 11 OctJupiter opposition natal Mercury
- 12 OctMars trine natal Venus
- 13 OctMars trine natal Uranus
- 15 OctMars trine natal Jupiter
- 20 OctMars sextile natal Moon
- 23 OctSaturn trine natal Jupiter
November 2026
- 5 NovSaturn trine natal Uranus
- 6 NovMars opposition natal Mercury
- 17 NovSaturn conjunction natal Venus
- 23 NovMars trine natal Neptune
- 24 NovMars sextile natal Pluto
- 26 NovUranus sextile natal Mars
December 2026
- 5 DecPluto sextile natal Mars
- 7 DecMars sextile natal Saturn
- 26 DecPluto square natal Saturn
- 26 DecMars square natal Uranus
- 31 DecMars square natal Jupiter
January 2027
- 3 JanSaturn conjunction natal Venus
- 15 JanSaturn trine natal Uranus
- 19 JanMars square natal Jupiter
- 25 JanMars square natal Uranus
- 27 JanSaturn trine natal Jupiter
February 2027
- 10 FebMars sextile natal Saturn
- 16 FebJupiter opposition natal Mercury
- 23 FebMars sextile natal Pluto
- 24 FebMars trine natal Neptune
- 26 FebSaturn opposition natal Moon
March 2027
- 13 MarNeptune conjunction natal Mars
- 24 MarMars opposition natal Mercury
April 2027
- 10 AprMars opposition natal Mercury
- 19 AprUranus sextile natal Mars
May 2027
- 7 MaySaturn sextile natal Mercury
- 11 MayMars trine natal Neptune
- 12 MayMars sextile natal Pluto
- 25 MayMars sextile natal Saturn
June 2027
- 5 JunMars square natal Uranus
- 6 JunMars square natal Jupiter
- 7 JunJupiter opposition natal Mercury
- 8 JunMars opposition natal Sun
July 2027
- 13 JulMars square natal Neptune
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