Live sky:☽ Moon in Cancerwaning balsamic · 0% littoday's shared mood.
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 · Zerkaa
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 clockSagittarius
Your Progressed Moon marks an emotional season of expansion and meaning. The need is for freedom, horizon, and the bigger picture. A restless, optimistic stretch, reaching beyond the known.
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.
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 10th house ·
Mercury
Age 33. The active house carries
Virgo on its cusp, and the year
lord is Mercury: currently transiting
Cancer 20°06'
in your 8th house
(℞).
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
33.8.
Progressed Moon · age 33.8
Sagittarius 6°
02'
· 1st house
Progressed lunation:
New Moon
· Planting, low visibility, inner reorientation. Old structures composting beneath the surface.
An emotional season of expansion and meaning. The need is for freedom, horizon, and the bigger picture. A restless, optimistic stretch, reaching beyond the known.
November 22 to December 21. Mutable fire. Ruled by Jupiter.
where it lands
The body. The mask. The threshold. The way you arrive.
Transits to your year lord
(Mercury) 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 10, 2026
sextile
Jupiter sextile
Mercury
November 3, 2026
opposition
Saturn opposition
Mercury
January 16, 2027
opposition
Saturn opposition
Mercury
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 17, 2026
In 3 days. The return Moon lands in your
1st house with
Leo rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak April 16, 2029 ·
age 36.6. 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.
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
Scorpio 5°05'
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.
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
(9th house) · orb
0.8°
August 28, 2026
Lunar
Pisces 4°54'
opposition your Moon
(3rd house) · orb
1.2°
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
opposition your Chiron
(3rd house) · orb
1.6°
February 20, 2027
Lunar
Virgo 2°06'
conjunction your Moon
(9th house) · orb
1.6°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Saturn
(9th house) · orb
2.3°
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
4th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 4°36'
Pluto retrograding through your
2nd 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°.
