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6570 AGE → CYCLE Saturn29-YEAR CYCLEProfection12-YEAR RING71 TODAY · 68.1Y
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 · Prince Rogers Nelson
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 68

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 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 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 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 8th 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 · Moon
Age 68. The active house carries Cancer on its cusp, and the year lord is Moon: currently transiting Cancer 15°50' in your 8th 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 68.1.

Progressed Moon · age 68.1
Leo 20° 40' · 9th house
Progressed lunation: Balsamic · Closure and release. Conscious endings, the pre-dawn quiet before a new cycle.

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

The wide world. Philosophy. Long-distance travel. The search for meaning.

natal contacts
  • sextile natal Jupiter 1.3°
  • trine natal Saturn 2.2°
year-lord transits

The year's loudest weather

Transits to your year lord (Moon) 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.

January 12, 2027
square
Uranus square Moon
March 6, 2027
square
Uranus square Moon
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 31, 2026
In 18 days. The return Moon lands in your 5th house with Libra rising on the return chart. That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-06-07 09:52 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
Opposition
Peak October 18, 2031 · age 73.4. 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.
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
Leo 21°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
Balsamic
Closure and release. Conscious endings, the pre-dawn quiet before a new 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.

August 12, 2026
Solar Leo 20°02'
opposition your Chiron (9th house) · orb 2.6°
August 28, 2026
Lunar Pisces 4°54'
conjunction your Moon (4th house) · orb 2.9°
February 20, 2027
Lunar Virgo 2°06'
opposition your Moon (10th house) · orb 0.1°
February 20, 2027
Lunar Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your Pluto (10th house) · orb 2.1°
August 2, 2027
Solar Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Uranus (9th house) · orb 1.2°
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 8th house.
until December 12, 2026
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your 5th house.
until October 16, 2026
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your 3rd 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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