profection year
Year of the 11th house ·
Mars
Age 46. The active house carries
Aries on its cusp, and the year
lord is Mars: currently transiting
Gemini 10°43'
in your 12th house
.
Personal cycles · Mark Rober
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 46
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 Saturn Opposition at Midlife
Saturn again opposes its birth position, around age forty-four, the honest audit at the midpoint of the whole cycle. The commitments of your first return are weighed without mercy. You stand at the top of a hill you started climbing at twenty-nine, and the view includes everything you have not done. Keep what still has a pulse.
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 clocknodal reversal
You are near a nodal reversal, the halfway point of the nineteen-year cycle, around ages nine, twenty-eight, forty-six, and sixty-five. The nodes have swung to the opposite of their birth position, which can feel like being pulled toward the very things you usually avoid. It is a course-correction in the soul's direction, often uncomfortable, often necessary.
Progressed Moon · the emotional clockLibra
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season turned toward others and balance. The need is for relationship, harmony, and fairness. A relational stretch, learning yourself through partnership.
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.
today
What the sky is doing right now
The Moon is in Cancer
15°50' · 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.
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 46.34.
Progressed Moon · age 46.34
Libra 2°
27'
· 4th house
Progressed lunation:
Gibbous
· Refinement. Perfecting the work, with culmination in sight.
An emotional season turned toward others and balance. The need is for relationship, harmony, and fairness. A relational stretch, learning yourself through partnership.
September 23 to October 22. Cardinal air. Ruled by Venus.
where it lands
The home. The roots. The family. The ground beneath the feet.
natal contacts
No tight natal contacts right now: a quieter inner passage.
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.
No major exact hits to your year lord land in the next twelve months. The quieter stretch is itself a year-shape: less weather, more room to choose.
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 27, 2026
In 14 days. The return Moon lands in your
4th house with
Libra rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-03-11 23:40 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
Closing Square
Peak May 27, 2032 ·
age 52.2. The closing square of the second cycle clears away what is finished. Roles and ambitions that have done their work, and some that quietly never worked, ask to be set down. The friction is releasing an identity before the next Return asks who you are without it.
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
Taurus 7°03'
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
Gibbous
Refinement. Perfecting the work, with culmination in sight.
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 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
opposition your Jupiter
(9th house) · orb
1.7°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your Jupiter
(3rd house) · orb
1.1°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your Mars
(3rd house) · orb
2.1°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your North Node
(3rd house) · orb
3.0°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
opposition your South Node
(3rd house) · orb
3.0°
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°.
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