profection year
Year of the 4th house ·
Venus
Age 39. The active house carries
Libra on its cusp, and the year
lord is Venus: currently transiting
Virgo 4°44'
in your 2nd house
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Personal cycles · Summit1g
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Between major cycle peaks.
no return or hard threshold is close. middle of a chapter.
See your full timeline →Asteria · every clock at once, age 39
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 3 of 12 (first quarter)
The first-quarter stretch of the Jupiter cycle. The early growth meets its first reality check, the place where expansion has to prove it can hold. Opportunity is still here, but it now asks for substance behind the optimism.
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 clock4th house year
By annual profection you are in a 4th-house year of home and roots. home, parents, ancestry, land, and the private self behind the public face. a 4th-house year pulls you inward: moves, renovations, family crises or reconciliations, memory, the need to belong somewhere. Look at the sign on your 4th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
And the generational waves firing now
The Neptune Square ages 36-45
Across the early forties, Neptune squares its birth position, dissolving the certainties you built your life on and asking what you actually believe and long for. It can bring disillusionment, spiritual searching, or a fog over the old goals. The dream is being renegotiated.
The Pluto Square ages 36-45
In the same midlife window, for many generations, Pluto squares its birth position, forcing a deep confrontation with power, mortality, and what must be transformed. It is the heaviest of the midlife waves, the one that remakes you from the root. What it ends was already ending.
today
What the sky is doing right now
The Moon is in Cancer
15°50' · transiting your
12th 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 39.22.
Progressed Moon · age 39.22
Leo 21°
42'
· 1st house
Progressed lunation:
Crescent
· Building. The first pushback against the old, the first real risks on the new direction.
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 body. The mask. The threshold. The way you arrive.
natal contacts
- trine natal Saturn 1.0°
- trine natal Mercury 1.2°
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.
October 14, 2026
conjunction
Neptune conjunction
Venus
December 25, 2026
sextile
Uranus sextile
Venus
February 7, 2027
conjunction
Neptune conjunction
Venus
March 24, 2027
sextile
Uranus sextile
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 2, 2026
In 19 days. The return Moon lands in your
10th house with
Gemini rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Solar Return
2026-04-24 04:39 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
Opposition
Peak November 27, 2031 ·
age 44.6. Saturn opposes itself again at the centre of life: the reckoning the phrase 'midlife crisis' is pointing at. What you have built becomes fully visible, measured against what you actually wanted. The friction is honest accounting: time is now visibly finite, and the gap between the real life and the intended one has to be faced.
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 11°53'
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
Crescent
Building. The first pushback against the old, the first real risks on the new direction.
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
12th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 4°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
9th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞
Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
7th 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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