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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 · Denise Richards
Profections, returns, progressions, eclipses, and retrograde windows on one timeline.
Asteria · every clock at once, age 55
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 clockApproaching the Second Return
You are in the closing stretch of your second Saturn cycle. A lifetime of building is coming up for its deepest review, and the structures you have given your life to are nearing their second weighing. The elder threshold draws near.
Jupiter · the expansion clockyear 7 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 clocknodal return
You are at or near a nodal return, which happens roughly every nineteen years, around ages nineteen, thirty-seven, fifty-six, and seventy-four. The lunar nodes have come back to where they began, and the themes of your soul's direction come up for renewal. These are years when the question of where you are growing toward, and what you are leaving behind, gets loud again. Fated-feeling encounters and turning points cluster here.
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 clock8th house year
By annual profection you are in an 8th-house year of depth and transformation. shared money, inheritance, debt, sex, grief, and the places life gets irrevocable. an 8th-house year rarely stays polite: mergers, taxes, therapy, endings, power, what you inherit emotionally and literally. Look at the sign on your 8th house, its ruler as Lord of the Year, and transits to that planet until your next birthday.
21°57' · transiting your
5th house. Phase:
New · the seed.
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 8th house ·
Jupiter
Age 55. The active house carries
Sagittarius on its cusp, and the year
lord is Jupiter: currently transiting
Leo 15°51'
in your 4th 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
55.56.
Progressed Moon · age 55.56
Sagittarius 2°
02'
· 7th house
Progressed lunation:
Full Moon
· Culmination and exposure. Peak visibility, realisations, turning points.
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
Partnership. The other. Marriage. Open enemies. The mirror.
Transits to your year lord
(Jupiter) 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 30, 2026
opposition
Uranus opposition
Jupiter
January 13, 2027
sextile
Pluto sextile
Jupiter
April 11, 2027
trine
Neptune trine
Jupiter
May 9, 2027
opposition
Uranus opposition
Jupiter
August 17, 2027
square
Jupiter square
Jupiter
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
September 15, 2026
In 4 days. The return Moon lands in your
11th house with
Sagittarius rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Peak May 21, 2029 ·
age 58.3. Saturn returns a second time, at the threshold of elderhood. The life's central structures are weighed for what they were truly for: work, family, place. The friction is consolidation: deciding what to carry forward, what to lay down, and what your authority is now in service of.
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
Aries 23°39'
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
Full Moon
Culmination and exposure. Peak visibility, realisations, turning points.
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.
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Mercury
(10th house) · orb
2.3°
August 2, 2027
Solar
Leo 9°55'
opposition your Part of Fortune
(4th house) · orb
2.5°
July 6, 2028
Lunar
Capricorn 15°11'
conjunction your Venus
(9th house) · orb
1.7°
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 December 10, 2026
℞Aries 13°02'
Saturn retrograding through your
12th house.
until February 8, 2027
℞Gemini 5°42'
Uranus retrograding through your
1st house.
until December 12, 2026
℞Aries 3°24'
Neptune retrograding through your
11th house.
until October 16, 2026
℞Aquarius 3°20'
Pluto retrograding through your
10th 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.
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°.