Live sky:☽ Moon in Cancerwaning balsamic · 1% 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 · Oprah Winfrey
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 72
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 Third Cycle
You are in your third Saturn cycle, the elder phase, where the work shifts from building to distilling. Saturn's lessons are no longer about climbing but about what the climb was for, and the authority you carry was earned across a whole life.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 0 of 12 (return)
A Jupiter return year. Roughly every twelve years Jupiter comes home, and a new cycle of growth and opportunity opens. This is a year to plant for the next twelve, to say yes to expansion, to reach for the larger version of your life. Doors that were shut tend to open.
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 clockLeo
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of warmth and self-expression. The need is to be seen, to create, to shine. A more confident, outward stretch, learning to take up space.
Profection · the annual clock1st house year
By annual profection you are in a 1st-house year of self and fresh starts. the spotlight lands on you: body, name, presence, the way you enter a room. this is the year's front door. health flares, image shifts, identity experiments, the urge to reinvent how you look or move or introduce yourself. people read you differently; you may feel pushed to show up as someone new. Look at the sign on your 1st house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
8°48' · transiting your
7th 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 1st house ·
Jupiter
Age 72. The active house carries
Sagittarius on its cusp, and the year
lord is Jupiter: currently transiting
Leo 2°53'
in your 7th 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
72.45.
Progressed Moon · age 72.45
Leo 11°
10'
· 8th house
Progressed lunation:
First Quarter
· Friction and trial-and-error. Action taken under pressure; the new direction tested.
An emotional season of warmth and self-expression. The need is to be seen, to create, to shine. A more confident, outward stretch, learning to take up space.
July 23 to August 22. Fixed fire. Ruled by the Sun.
where it lands
Death. Sex. Other people's money. The merging. The transformation.
Transits to your year lord
(Jupiter) 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 15, 2026
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Jupiter
March 30, 2027
sextile
Saturn sextile
Jupiter
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 24, 2026
In 11 days. The return Moon lands in your
5th house with
Cancer rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak October 15, 2028 ·
age 74.7. Saturn's final opposition brings a wide, clear view of the whole arc. What you built meets the world once more, now mostly through the people and the work you have influenced. The friction is meaning: making peace with the shape of the life, and with what can no longer be changed.
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
Aries 21°27'
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
First Quarter
Friction and trial-and-error. Action taken under pressure; the new direction tested.
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 Mercury
(8th house) · orb
0.9°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
conjunction your Part of Fortune
(2nd house) · orb
0.8°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Mercury
(2nd house) · orb
1.5°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
opposition your Part of Fortune
(8th house) · orb
2.1°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Sun
(8th house) · orb
0.9°
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°24'
Mercury retrograding through your
7th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
3rd house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
1st 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°.
