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Asteria · Yearly Forecast
July 13, 2026
profection year

Rachel's year of the 2nd house

Age 25 · year 26 of life · May 3, 2026 → May 3, 2027

Virgo on the active cusp. Year lord: Mercury, natal Taurus 25°00' in the 10th house.

Right now Mercury transits Cancer 20°24' in your 12th house (℞).

Year-lord transits

Major contacts to your year lord over the next 12 months: the year's loudest weather, per Hellenistic practice.

DateFromAspect To year lord
Nov 6, 2026JupitersquareMercury
Jan 18, 2027JupitersquareMercury℞
Jun 30, 2027JupitersquareMercury

The year ahead

Every Jupiter-through-Pluto transit that goes exact in the next twelve months: the dates the major influences peak.

Hits to your year lord (Mercury) or your profected 2nd house weigh heaviest for this year's themes.

July 2026
Jul 21, 2026JupitertrineVenus
Jul 22, 2026UranussextileVenus
Jul 31, 2026MarssquareMoon
August 2026
Aug 1, 2026SaturntrinePluto℞
Aug 3, 2026MarstrineUranus
Aug 9, 2026JupiteroppositionNeptune
Aug 9, 2026MarsoppositionMars
Aug 18, 2026MarssquareVenus
Aug 24, 2026SaturnsextileJupiter℞
Aug 29, 2026JupitersquareSun
Aug 31, 2026MarssextileSun
September 2026
Sep 2, 2026JupitersextileJupiter
Sep 5, 2026JupitertrinePluto
Sep 15, 2026MarssextileMoon
Sep 19, 2026MarssextileMercury
Sep 30, 2026MarssextileSaturn
October 2026
Oct 6, 2026MarstrineVenus
Oct 13, 2026MarsoppositionNeptune
Oct 21, 2026MarssquareSun
Oct 23, 2026MarssextileJupiter
Oct 24, 2026MarstrinePluto
Oct 31, 2026UranussextileVenus℞
November 2026
Nov 3, 2026JupiteroppositionUranus
Nov 6, 2026JupitersquareMercury
Nov 10, 2026SaturnsextileNeptune℞
Nov 13, 2026MarsoppositionUranus
Nov 14, 2026MarssquareMercury
Nov 22, 2026MarstrineMars
Nov 30, 2026MarssquareSaturn
January 2027
Jan 10, 2027SaturnsextileNeptune
Jan 11, 2027PlutosextileVenus
Jan 18, 2027JupitersquareMercury℞
Jan 22, 2027JupiteroppositionUranus℞
February 2027
Feb 17, 2027MarssquareSaturn℞
Feb 24, 2027MarstrineMars℞
March 2027
Mar 7, 2027MarssquareMercury℞
Mar 8, 2027MarsoppositionUranus℞
Mar 9, 2027SaturnsextileJupiter
Mar 15, 2027SaturntrinePluto
April 2027
Apr 9, 2027NeptuneconjunctionVenus
Apr 27, 2027MarsoppositionUranus
Apr 29, 2027MarssquareMercury
May 2027
May 8, 2027UranussextileVenus
May 10, 2027MarstrineMars
May 18, 2027MarssquareSaturn
June 2027
Jun 6, 2027SaturnsextileUranus
Jun 13, 2027MarstrineSun
Jun 15, 2027MarssquareJupiter
Jun 16, 2027MarssquarePluto
Jun 27, 2027JupiteroppositionUranus
Jun 30, 2027JupitersquareMercury
July 2027
Jul 1, 2027MarsconjunctionMoon
Jul 6, 2027MarstrineMercury
Jul 12, 2027MarssquareMars

Returns ahead

The cycles where a planet returns to its natal position: fresh charts cast on top of the natal shaping their windows.

Lunar Return
July 18, 2026
Moon back to natal · 5 days away. Libra rising · Moon in 12th house.
Solar Return
2026-05-03 17:05 UTC
Sun back to natal degree. The Solar Return ASC and MC frame the year ahead.
Saturn cycle
First Saturn Return
Peak Jun 13, 2030 · age 29.1. 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

Secondary progressions (day-for-a-year): the inner clock that redraws the chart slowly over a life.

Progressed Sun
Gemini 7°34'
About thirty years per sign: sign changes mark major life-phase boundaries.
Progressed Moon
Leo 23°29' · 1st house
The inner monthly weather over years, roughly 2.3 years per sign.
Progressed lunation
Crescent
Building. The first pushback against the old, the first real risks on the new direction.

Eclipses ahead

Solar and lunar eclipses within ~18 months that fall within orb of a natal placement.

DateKindAt HitsOrb
Aug 12, 2026SolarLeo 20°02'opposition Black Moon Lilith2.4°
Feb 6, 2027SolarAquarius 17°38'conjunction Black Moon Lilith0.0°
Aug 2, 2027SolarLeo 9°55'opposition Neptune1.2°
Jan 26, 2028SolarAquarius 6°11'conjunction Neptune2.6°

Retrograde now

Planets currently moving backward through the zodiac and the natal house each is rolling through.

PlanetUntilAt Your house
Mercuryuntil Jul 23, 2026Cancer 20°24'12th house
Neptuneuntil Dec 12, 2026Aries 4°24'9th house
Plutountil Oct 16, 2026Aquarius 4°36'6th house

Monthly profection schedule

Within the profection year the active house rotates one step every month, starting on your birthday. The monthly lord rules that month's cusp.

FromHouseSign Lord
May 3, 20262ndVirgoMercury
Jun 3, 20263rdVirgoMercury
Jul 3, 20264thLibraVenus
Aug 3, 20265thSagittariusJupiter
Sep 3, 20266thCapricornSaturn
Oct 3, 20267thAquariusSaturn
Nov 3, 20268thPiscesJupiter
Dec 3, 20269thPiscesJupiter
Jan 3, 202710thAriesMars
Feb 3, 202711thGeminiMercury
Mar 3, 202712thCancerMoon
Apr 3, 20271stLeoSun

Retrograde windows ahead

Mercury, Venus, and Mars retrograde periods over the next 12 months. Each window is bounded by the two stations that open and close it.

StartsEndsPlanet Stations RxDirect
Jul 13, 2026Jul 23, 2026MercuryCancer 20°Cancer 16°
Oct 3, 2026Nov 14, 2026VenusScorpio 8°Libra 22°
Oct 24, 2026Nov 13, 2026MercuryScorpio 20°Scorpio 5°
Jan 10, 2027Apr 1, 2027MarsVirgo 10°Leo 20°
Feb 9, 2027Mar 3, 2027MercuryPisces 5°Aquarius 20°
Jun 10, 2027Jul 4, 2027MercuryCancer 6°Gemini 27°
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