sextile
Uranus sextileℹ
natal Mercury
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 · 12:41 UTC. Transiting Uranus is making a sextile to your natal Mercury. 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.
10 contacts live against this chart · orb window ±6°
Asteria · the week, in one read
The loudest thing in your sky this week is dissolution, sitting on your how you think and speak. 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 nowNeptune fuses with your Mercury (mind and how you communicate): merging directly: intense and hard to ignore
- Season underneathProgressed Moon in Libra: A season turned toward others, when the need is for relationship and balance
10thhouse year
your profection year
A 10th-house year · age 57
Annual profections move the spotlight one house each year. At age 57, yours rests on the 10th house: the public. the career. the legacy. the mountain.
The sign on that house is Aries, so its ruler is your Lord of the Year. Mars sits in Sagittarius 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 Midheaven and the year lord: your natal ambition shape.
the year lord is Mars: drive, conflict, heat, and surgery. Mars transits, returns, and retrogrades time the fights worth having and the energy you must spend.
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 sextile natal Mercury
Transiting Pluto is making a sextile to your natal Mercury.
Exact · 2026-08-13
Loudest · 02
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Neptune conjunction natal Mercury
Transiting Neptune is making a conjunction to your natal Mercury.
Exact · 2026-08-22
Loudest · 03
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Saturn trine natal Mars
Transiting Saturn is making a trine to your natal Mars.
Exact · 2026-09-10
The Moon, on you
Moon in Cancer
· passing through your
12th house
tightest contactMoon square natal Sun · orb 2.8°
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Mon 13
quiet
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Tue 14
open
1
Wed 15
quiet
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Thu 16
charged
1
Fri 17
open
1
Sat 18
quiet
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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 12th house · rest, release, the inner life. A quiet New Moon: set an intention to let go and replenish.
- 29 Jul 2026Full Moon in 6° AquariusIlluminates your 6th house · A job, a habit or a health effort comes to fruition. Complete it. And shed the routine that no longer serves the body.
- 12 Aug 2026New Moon in 20° LeoBegins in your 1st house · a fresh start for you: your body, your image, how you show up. Set an intention about who you are becoming.
- 28 Aug 2026Full Moon in 4° PiscesIlluminates your 8th house · Something deep surfaces into the light: a shared resource, a bond, a buried truth, to be faced, and freed.
- 11 Sep 2026New Moon in 18° VirgoBegins in your 3rd house · your mind, your words, your local world. Start a conversation, a class, a writing habit.
- 26 Sep 2026Full Moon in 3° AriesIlluminates your 9th house · A journey, a study or a long search culminates. You arrive somewhere: in mind, in belief, or in fact.
- 10 Oct 2026New Moon in 17° LibraBegins in your 4th house · home, family, your roots. Begin something at the foundation: the private base everything rests on.
- 26 Oct 2026Full Moon in 2° TaurusIlluminates your 10th house · Work done quietly becomes visible: recognition, a milestone, a public turning point in your path.
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′ Leofalls in your 1st house · no tight natal contact
- 28 Aug 2026Partial lunar eclipse at 4°54′ Piscesfalls in your 8th house · no tight natal contact
- 6 Feb 2027Total/Annular solar eclipse at 17°38′ Aquariusfalls in your 7th house · no tight natal contact
- 20 Feb 2027Penumbral lunar eclipse at 2°06′ Virgofalls in your 2nd 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 12th house
the conversation, the deals, the routes: all under review
Neptune retrograde · in your 9th house
dreams and dissolutions, turned inward; the fog thins, but only for the part of you that wants to see
Pluto retrograde · in your 6th 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.
- Wed 15 Julin 1 dayMars sextile natal Sun
- Fri 17 Julin 3 daysMars opposition natal Mars
- Sat 18 Julin 4 daysJupiter trine natal Mercury
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 Mercury
The feeling
Ideas arrive sideways: a phrase, a podcast, a random conversation rewires how you think about something you had locked in.
What it is asking
Uranus is giving your mind a software patch, not a full reboot. It asks you to test one unconventional thought and see if it holds.
Gravity & hope
Follow the weird idea for 48 hours. If it still clicks, it was lightning. If not, let it pass without guilt.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Uranus is making a sextile to your natal Mercury. Uranus is the function of awakening. Sudden change. The frequency of the new. Natal Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. 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 Mercury 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 Mercury
The feeling
Your thinking turns dreamy, intuitive, hard to pin down. Logic feels less reliable and imagination floods in. You sense things you cannot prove, think in images and impressions, and ordinary concentration becomes slippery.
What it is asking
This is Neptune crossing your Mercury, dissolution in the mind. It asks you to trust intuition and imagination while staying anchored enough to function. The mental haze can be confusion or it can be inspiration, depending on whether you give it a channel.
Gravity & hope
Let the imagination flow, and keep one foot on the ground. This is a season for poetry, art, and intuitive knowing, less for contracts and fine print. Trust the dreamlike insight, and double-check the facts before you sign anything.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Neptune is making a conjunction to your natal Mercury. Neptune is the function of dissolution. Imagination. The boundary between the personal and the universal. Natal Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. 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 Mercury 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.
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Pluto
sextileℹ natal Mercury
The feeling
You keep returning to one conversation, one memory, one sentence, not because it is loud, but because something underneath it will not stay buried.
What it is asking
Pluto is doing archaeology on your mind. It asks you to name what you have been speaking around instead of through.
Gravity & hope
Write the thing you keep almost saying. Depth is not drama here, it is honesty, and honesty now saves you years of circling.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Pluto is making a sextile to your natal Mercury. Pluto is transformation. Death and rebirth. The function of the underworld. Natal Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. 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 Mercury 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.
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Jupiter
trineℹ natal Mercury
The feeling
This week things feel unusually easy around your how you think and speak, 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 Mercury. Jupiter is expansion. Faith. The function of growth and the search for meaning. Natal Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. 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 Mercury 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.
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Saturn
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 maturation 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 Saturn is making a trine to your natal Mars. Saturn is discipline. Structure. The function of limitation, mastery, and time. 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
Saturn moves like scaffolding going up around a building mid-renovation: do the unglamorous work now that the future self will thank you for. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Saturn 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.
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 (Mars) or your profected 10th house carry extra weight for the themes of your house year.
July 2026
- 31 JulMars sextile natal Venus
August 2026
- 1 AugMars square natal Pluto
- 3 AugMars square natal Moon
- 5 AugMars sextile natal Saturn
- 11 AugMars square natal Jupiter
- 13 AugPluto sextile natal Mercury
- 13 AugMars square natal Uranus
- 17 AugMars square natal Mercury
- 21 AugJupiter trine natal Sun
- 22 AugNeptune conjunction natal Mercury
- 28 AugJupiter trine natal Mars
- 29 AugMars square natal Sun
September 2026
- 10 SepSaturn trine natal Mars
- 16 SepMars square natal Venus
- 16 SepMars sextile natal Pluto
- 19 SepMars sextile natal Moon
- 22 SepMars square natal Saturn
- 25 SepMars trine natal Neptune
- 27 SepMars sextile natal Jupiter
- 30 SepMars sextile natal Uranus
October 2026
- 1 OctSaturn conjunction natal Sun
- 4 OctMars trine natal Mercury
- 18 OctMars trine natal Sun
- 21 OctMars trine natal Mars
- 21 OctJupiter trine natal Venus
November 2026
- 9 NovMars trine natal Venus
- 17 NovMars trine natal Saturn
- 20 NovUranus sextile natal Mercury
- 22 NovMars square natal Neptune
- 23 NovJupiter trine natal Saturn
December 2026
- 15 DecPluto sextile natal Mercury
January 2027
- 1 JanJupiter trine natal Saturn
February 2027
- 4 FebJupiter trine natal Venus
- 14 FebSaturn conjunction natal Sun
- 25 FebMars square natal Neptune
- 28 FebSaturn trine natal Mars
March 2027
- 3 MarMars trine natal Saturn
- 14 MarMars trine natal Venus
- 19 MarNeptune conjunction natal Mercury
April 2027
- 20 AprMars trine natal Venus
- 24 AprUranus sextile natal Mercury
May 2027
- 3 MayMars trine natal Saturn
- 10 MayMars square natal Neptune
- 21 MaySaturn conjunction natal Venus
June 2027
- 13 JunMars square natal Mars
- 17 JunJupiter trine natal Venus
- 28 JunSaturn conjunction natal Saturn
July 2027
- 3 JulMars conjunction natal Pluto
- 6 JulMars conjunction natal Moon
- 7 JulJupiter trine natal Saturn
- 12 JulMars sextile natal Neptune
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