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3035 AGE → CYCLE Saturn29-YEAR CYCLEThe First Saturn ReturnBuilding the Real ThingProfection12-YEAR RING71 TODAY · 32.6Y
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 · Marques Brownlee
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 32

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 Second-Cycle Build

You are past the first return and constructing your second Saturn cycle on the foundations it clarified. This is the long, unglamorous work of making real what the return decided. Less dramatic than the threshold, and arguably where the actual life gets built.

Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 8 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 clockmid-cycle

You are in the long stretch between the karmic turning points. The themes of growth and release set at the last nodal return are quietly unfolding. This is steady soul-development time rather than a turning point, the work between the hinges.

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 clock9th house year

By annual profection you are in a 9th-house year of meaning and horizon. travel, publishing, teaching, faith, law, and the long view. a 9th-house year stretches the frame: foreign places, big ideas, mentors, the story you tell about what life means. Look at the sign on your 9th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.

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today

What the sky is doing right now

The Moon is in Cancer
15°50' · transiting your 5th 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 9th house · Mars
Age 32. The active house carries Scorpio on its cusp, and the year lord is Mars: currently transiting Gemini 10°43' in your 3rd house .
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 32.61.

Progressed Moon · age 32.61
Libra 18° 53' · 7th house
Progressed lunation: Last Quarter · Restructuring. Breaking down what no longer fits the next cycle.

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

Partnership. The other. Marriage. Open enemies. The mirror.

natal contacts
  • square natal Neptune 0.6°
  • sextile natal Mars 1.1°
  • square natal Uranus 1.1°
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.

September 21, 2026
trine
Jupiter trine Mars
March 21, 2027
trine
Jupiter trine Mars
April 8, 2027
trine
Saturn trine Mars
May 6, 2027
trine
Jupiter trine Mars
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 15, 2026
In 1 days. The return Moon lands in your 4th house with Taurus rising on the return chart. That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-12-03 17:19 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
Opening Square
Peak September 23, 2029 · age 35.8. The opening square of the second cycle pushes you to commit to what the Return rebuilt. The choices made around thirty now demand follow-through. The friction is between momentum and the patient, unglamorous work of making a thing genuinely solid.
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
Capricorn 14°44'
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
Last Quarter
Restructuring. Breaking down what no longer fits the next cycle.
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.

January 12, 2028
Lunar Cancer 21°28'
opposition your Uranus (5th house) · orb 1.4°
January 12, 2028
Lunar Cancer 21°28'
opposition your Neptune (5th house) · orb 2.0°
January 26, 2028
Solar Aquarius 6°11'
opposition your Moon (12th house) · orb 2.0°
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 5th house.
until December 12, 2026
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your 1st house.
until October 16, 2026
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your 12th 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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