profection year
Year of the 5th house ·
Sun
Age 28. The active house carries
Leo on its cusp, and the year
lord is Sun: currently transiting
Cancer 21°36'
in your 4th house
.
Personal cycles · Punz
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 28
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 Closing Square
Saturn makes its last square before coming home, around ages twenty-one to twenty-two, and the casual approach to adulthood begins to run out of road. You start being asked to take real ownership. The first return is now on the horizon, and you can feel it coming.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 4 of 12 (opening)
The opening years of a Jupiter cycle. The growth begun at the last return is taking shape, and the mood is optimistic and forward-leaning. A good stretch to build on the expansion you reached for, while the door is still open.
The Nodes · the karmic clocknodal reversal
You are near a nodal reversal, the halfway point of the nineteen-year cycle, around ages nine, twenty-eight, forty-six, and sixty-five. The nodes have swung to the opposite of their birth position, which can feel like being pulled toward the very things you usually avoid. It is a course-correction in the soul's direction, often uncomfortable, often necessary.
Progressed Moon · the emotional clockPisces
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of dissolving and dreaming. The need is for rest, compassion, and the boundless. A soft, impressionable stretch of letting go before the cycle renews.
Profection · the annual clock5th house year
By annual profection you are in a 5th-house year of joy and creation. romance, play, art, children, risk, and the places you perform for the joy of it. a 5th-house year wants heat, colour, creativity, flirtation, and the courage to be seen having fun. Look at the sign on your 5th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
today
What the sky is doing right now
The Moon is in Cancer
15°50' · transiting your
4th 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.
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 28.53.
Progressed Moon · age 28.53
Pisces 7°
03'
· 12th house
Progressed lunation:
New Moon
· Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
An emotional season of dissolving and dreaming. The need is for rest, compassion, and the boundless. A soft, impressionable stretch of letting go before the cycle renews.
February 19 to March 20. Mutable water. Ruled by Neptune. Co-ruled traditionally by Jupiter.
where it lands
The hidden. The unconscious. The retreat. The dissolution. The behind-the-scenes life.
natal contacts
- square natal Pluto 0.3°
year-lord transits
The year's loudest weather
Transits to your year lord (Sun) 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.
October 7, 2026
square
Saturn square
Sun
February 9, 2027
square
Saturn square
Sun
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 30, 2026
In 17 days. The return Moon lands in your
4th house with
Scorpio rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-01-01 12:02 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
First Saturn Return
Peak August 30, 2026 ·
age 28.7. Saturn comes back to where it stood at your birth. This is the cycle's headline: the years the life assembled through your twenties is audited. What was built to please others, or built on no real foundation, tends to crack: a job, a relationship, a city, a self-image. The friction is being asked, often for the first time, to become your own authority and rebuild on your own terms.
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
Aquarius 10°08'
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
New Moon
Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
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 Moon
(5th house) · orb
0.0°
August 12, 2026
Solar
Leo 20°02'
opposition your Jupiter
(5th house) · orb
2.4°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Moon
(11th house) · orb
2.4°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Mars
(5th house) · orb
1.4°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Uranus
(5th house) · orb
2.8°
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
4th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
12th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
11th 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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