profection year
Year of the 10th house ·
Venus
Age 33. The active house carries
Taurus on its cusp, and the year
lord is Venus: currently transiting
Virgo 4°44'
in your 1st house
.
Personal cycles · Slogoman
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 33
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 9 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 clockTaurus
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of settling and stabilizing. The need is for security, comfort, and the tangible. A grounding stretch after motion, learning to rest in what is solid.
Profection · the annual clock10th house year
By annual profection you are in a 10th-house year of vocation and standing. career, reputation, authority, and the public record. a 10th-house year puts your name on the marquee: promotions, falls, rebrands, the question of what you are known for. Look at the sign on your 10th 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
11th 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 33.16.
Progressed Moon · age 33.16
Taurus 26°
39'
· 10th house
Progressed lunation:
Balsamic
· Closure and release. Conscious endings, the pre-dawn quiet before a new cycle.
An emotional season of settling and stabilizing. The need is for security, comfort, and the tangible. A grounding stretch after motion, learning to rest in what is solid.
April 20 to May 20. Fixed earth. Ruled by Venus.
where it lands
The public. The career. The legacy. The mountain.
natal contacts
- conjunction natal Sun 2.0°
- opposition natal Pluto 2.5°
- conjunction natal Mercury 2.8°
year-lord transits
The year's loudest weather
Transits to your year lord (Venus) 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.
August 24, 2026
trine
Jupiter trine
Venus
September 22, 2026
conjunction
Saturn conjunction
Venus
February 21, 2027
conjunction
Saturn conjunction
Venus
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
August 1, 2026
In 19 days. The return Moon lands in your
2nd house with
Capricorn rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-05-15 10:39 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 May 30, 2030 ·
age 37.0. 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
Gemini 26°25'
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'
conjunction your Chiron
(12th house) · orb
2.1°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
opposition your Chiron
(6th house) · orb
0.3°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
opposition your Saturn
(1st house) · orb
2.3°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
conjunction your Mars
(12th house) · orb
1.2°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
opposition your Neptune
(11th house) · orb
0.4°
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
11th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
8th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
6th 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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