sextile
Sun sextileℹ
natal Sun
Sun moves like a lamp turned toward one room of the house: let this part of you be seen and used, not just felt.
Today on your chart · the day's weather
what's active now, and the shifts ahead. Monday, 13 July 2026 · 12:44 UTC. Transiting Sun is making a sextile to your natal Sun. 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.
7 contacts live against this chart · orb window ±6°
Asteria · the week, in one read
The loudest thing in your sky this week is vitality, opening 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 nowSun offers a hand to your Sun (core identity and vitality): an open door: easy to miss, worth using
- Season underneathProgressed Moon in Taurus: A season of settling, when the need is for security, comfort, and steadiness
4thhouse year
your profection year
A 4th-house year · age 39
Annual profections move the spotlight one house each year. At age 39, yours rests on the 4th house: the home. the roots. the family. the ground beneath the feet.
The sign on that house is Scorpio, so its ruler is your Lord of the Year. Mars sits in Gemini in your 11th 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 4th-house cusp (IC) and the year lord: the emotional architecture you return to when tired.
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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Jupiter square natal Pluto
Transiting Jupiter is making a square to your natal Pluto.
Exact · 2026-08-06
Loudest · 02
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Jupiter trine natal Jupiter
Transiting Jupiter is making a trine to your natal Jupiter.
Exact · 2026-09-16
Loudest · 03
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Jupiter square natal Moon
Transiting Jupiter is making a square to your natal Moon.
Exact · 2026-09-16
The Moon, on you
Moon in Cancer
· passing through your
12th house
tightest contactMoon trine natal Pluto · orb 0.6°
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Mon 13
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Tue 14
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Wed 15
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Thu 16
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Fri 17
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Sat 18
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Sun 19
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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 7th house · A relationship reaches a turning point. A commitment is seen plainly, or an honest ending is named.
- 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 7th house · A relationship reaches a turning point. A commitment is seen plainly, or an honest ending is named.
- 11 Sep 2026New Moon in 18° VirgoBegins in your 2nd house · your money, your values, your sense of worth. Plant a seed for stability and self-respect.
- 26 Sep 2026Full Moon in 3° AriesIlluminates your 8th house · Something deep surfaces into the light: a shared resource, a bond, a buried truth, to be faced, and freed.
- 10 Oct 2026New Moon in 17° LibraBegins in your 2nd house · your money, your values, your sense of worth. Plant a seed for stability and self-respect.
- 26 Oct 2026Full Moon in 2° TaurusIlluminates your 9th house · A journey, a study or a long search culminates. You arrive somewhere: in mind, in belief, or in fact.
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′ Pisceslands on natal Vertex (conjunction, 2.9° orb) · in your 7th house
- 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′ Virgolands on natal Vertex (opposition, 0.1° orb) · in your 1st house
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 8th house
dreams and dissolutions, turned inward; the fog thins, but only for the part of you that wants to see
Pluto retrograde · in your 7th house
transformation pulled deeper underground; the underworld work continues out of sight
The seven days ahead
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
Sun
sextileℹ natal Sun
The feeling
This week there is a quiet opportunity around your sense of who you are, easy to miss if you are not looking.
What it is asking
This is vitality arriving as an offer, the sextile that asks for a small effort in exchange for real movement. Nothing forces your hand here. But if you reach, the universe meets you halfway.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Sun is making a sextile to your natal Sun. Sun is the central self. The conscious identity being built across the lifetime. Natal Sun is the central self. The conscious identity being built across the lifetime. 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
Sun moves like a lamp turned toward one room of the house: let this part of you be seen and used, not just felt. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Sun is available to your Sun 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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Mercury
sextileℹ natal Sun
The feeling
This week there is a quiet opportunity around your sense of who you are, easy to miss if you are not looking.
What it is asking
This is thought arriving as an offer, the sextile that asks for a small effort in exchange for real movement. Nothing forces your hand here. But if you reach, the universe meets you halfway.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Mercury is making a sextile to your natal Sun. Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. Natal Sun is the central self. The conscious identity being built across the lifetime. 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
Mercury moves like a new tab opening in the mind: have the conversation, send the message, name the thought out loud. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Mercury is available to your Sun 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.
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Moon
trineℹ natal Pluto
The feeling
This week things feel unusually easy around your underground power, a current moving in your favor.
What it is asking
This is feeling 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 Moon is making a trine to your natal Pluto. Moon is the inner emotional body. The firmware running before consciousness boots up. Natal Pluto is transformation. Death and rebirth. The function of the underworld. 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
Moon moves like a tide that rises and falls in the same day: feel it fully, then let the water recede. This is support, not pressure. The energy of Moon is available to your Pluto 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.
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Mercury
quincunxℹ natal Saturn
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Mercury is making a quincunx to your natal Saturn. Mercury is the mind. How thought moves. The bridge between perception and expression. Natal Saturn is discipline. Structure. The function of limitation, mastery, and time. Through this contact, they share no natural relationship and must be consciously adjusted to one another, again and again.
How to navigate it
Mercury moves like a new tab opening in the mind: have the conversation, send the message, name the thought out loud. The friction is the point. Mercury is pressure-testing your Saturn. 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 still applying: building toward exact, so its strongest pull is ahead of you.
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Moon
oppositionℹ natal Neptune
The feeling
This week, something is pulling against your imagination and longing, a tension you can feel across the table from yourself.
What it is asking
This is feeling arriving as confrontation, usually through another person or an outside event that mirrors back what you have not faced. The work is not to win the standoff. It is to find what the other side is trying to teach you.
The mechanics, in plain astrology
Transiting Moon is making a opposition to your natal Neptune. Moon is the inner emotional body. The firmware running before consciousness boots up. Natal Neptune is the function of dissolution. Imagination. The boundary between the personal and the universal. 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
Moon moves like a tide that rises and falls in the same day: feel it fully, then let the water recede. The friction is the point. Moon is pressure-testing your Neptune. 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 (Mars) or your profected 4th house carry extra weight for the themes of your house year.
July 2026
- 22 JulMars sextile natal Jupiter
- 27 JulMars opposition natal Saturn
August 2026
- 3 AugMars sextile natal Venus
- 3 AugMars conjunction natal Mars
- 5 AugMars opposition natal Uranus
- 6 AugJupiter square natal Pluto
- 23 AugMars opposition natal Neptune
- 23 AugMars trine natal Pluto
September 2026
- 6 SepMars square natal Jupiter
- 6 SepMars trine natal Moon
- 14 SepMars sextile natal Sun
- 16 SepJupiter trine natal Jupiter
- 16 SepJupiter square natal Moon
- 19 SepMars square natal Venus
- 26 SepMars sextile natal Mercury
October 2026
- 1 OctJupiter trine natal Saturn
- 12 OctMars square natal Pluto
- 14 OctJupiter square natal Sun
- 28 OctMars trine natal Jupiter
- 28 OctMars square natal Moon
November 2026
- 3 NovMars trine natal Saturn
- 4 NovJupiter trine natal Venus
- 5 NovJupiter sextile natal Mars
- 7 NovMars square natal Sun
- 13 NovMars trine natal Venus
- 13 NovMars sextile natal Mars
- 16 NovMars trine natal Uranus
- 17 NovJupiter trine natal Uranus
- 22 NovMars square natal Mercury
December 2026
- 19 DecMars trine natal Neptune
- 21 DecMars sextile natal Pluto
January 2027
- 7 JanJupiter trine natal Uranus
- 19 JanJupiter sextile natal Mars
- 20 JanJupiter trine natal Venus
- 28 JanMars sextile natal Pluto
- 30 JanMars trine natal Neptune
February 2027
- 12 FebJupiter square natal Sun
- 24 FebMars square natal Mercury
- 28 FebJupiter trine natal Saturn
March 2027
- 4 MarMars trine natal Uranus
- 7 MarMars sextile natal Mars
- 8 MarMars trine natal Venus
- 20 MarMars square natal Sun
April 2027
- 1 AprSaturn conjunction natal Jupiter
- 14 AprMars square natal Sun
- 24 AprSaturn trine natal Saturn
- 28 AprMars trine natal Venus
- 28 AprMars sextile natal Mars
May 2027
- 2 MayMars trine natal Uranus
- 11 MayMars square natal Mercury
- 26 MayJupiter trine natal Saturn
June 2027
- 2 JunMars trine natal Neptune
- 3 JunMars sextile natal Pluto
- 8 JunSaturn conjunction natal Venus
- 8 JunSaturn sextile natal Mars
- 11 JunJupiter square natal Sun
- 21 JunMars sextile natal Moon
- 23 JunSaturn trine natal Uranus
- 26 JunMars square natal Saturn
- 28 JunJupiter trine natal Venus
- 29 JunJupiter sextile natal Mars
- 30 JunMars trine natal Sun
July 2027
- 5 JulJupiter trine natal Uranus
- 5 JulMars square natal Mars
- 8 JulMars square natal Uranus
- 13 JulMars trine natal Mercury
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