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 · Ma Dong-seok
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 55
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 clockApproaching the Second Return
You are in the closing stretch of your second Saturn cycle. A lifetime of building is coming up for its deepest review, and the structures you have given your life to are nearing their second weighing. The elder threshold draws near.
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 clocknodal return
You are at or near a nodal return, which happens roughly every nineteen years, around ages nineteen, thirty-seven, fifty-six, and seventy-four. The lunar nodes have come back to where they began, and the themes of your soul's direction come up for renewal. These are years when the question of where you are growing toward, and what you are leaving behind, gets loud again. Fated-feeling encounters and turning points cluster here.
Progressed Moon · the emotional clockTaurus
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of settling and stabilizing. The need is for security, comfort, and the tangible. A grounding stretch after motion, learning to rest in what is solid.
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.
15°52' · transiting your
1st 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 ·
Saturn
Age 55. The active house carries
Capricorn on its cusp, and the year
lord is Saturn: currently transiting
Aries 14°37'
in your 10th 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
55.37.
Progressed Moon · age 55.37
Taurus 18°
24'
· 11th house
Progressed lunation:
New Moon
· Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
An emotional season of settling and stabilizing. The need is for security, comfort, and the tangible. A grounding stretch after motion, learning to rest in what is solid.
April 20 to May 20. Fixed earth. Ruled by Venus.
where it lands
Friends. Community. The group. The future. The hopes and wishes.
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.
September 19, 2026
square
Jupiter square
Saturn
March 28, 2027
square
Jupiter square
Saturn
April 29, 2027
square
Jupiter square
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
August 5, 2026
In 23 days. The return Moon lands in your
4th house with
Sagittarius rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak May 27, 2029 ·
age 58.2. Saturn returns a second time, at the threshold of elderhood. The life's central structures are weighed for what they were truly for: work, family, place. The friction is consolidation: deciding what to carry forward, what to lay down, and what your authority is now in service of.
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
Taurus 5°14'
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 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
opposition your North Node
(3rd house) · orb
3.5°
August 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
conjunction your South Node
(3rd house) · orb
3.5°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
conjunction your Mercury
(9th house) · orb
1.2°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
opposition your Part of Fortune
(9th house) · orb
1.9°
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
8th 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°.
