Lunar Return
October 28, 2026
In 2 days. The return Moon lands in your
1st house with
Taurus rising on the return chart.
That shapes the month's emotional weather.
Personal cycles · Frida Kahlo
Every cycle running at once, and which one is loud right now.
What is loud now
Jupiter on your Ascendant
Jupiter is sitting on one of the four corners of your chart, so how you meet the world is in focus.
Jupiter is crossing a corner of your chart, the angle of how you meet the world. There is more room there now, and more visibility for what you do with it.
Still running underneath
- Progressed Moon in 2nd housemoves on Apr 2028, age 121
- Profection year of the 12th housenext year begins Jul 2027
The shifts ahead
The next eighteen months, in order
Every major turning point coming up in your cycles: exact contacts, the progressed chart changing rooms, your next profection year, and eclipses that touch your chart. Dates are when each one turns exact; each is felt for weeks to months around it.
- Jul 2027 · age 120Profection year of the 1st house
Your birthday moves the profection to the 1st house, led by Sun: a year of self and fresh starts.
- Jan 2028Lunar eclipse in Cancer
A lunar eclipse lands on your Jupiter, in your 11th house.
- Jan 2028Solar eclipse in Aquarius
A solar eclipse opposes your Mercury, in your 6th house.
Asteria · the major cyclesFive clocks, one life.
Saturn audits the structure, Jupiter expands the room, the nodes pull the direction, the Progressed Moon ripens in one house, and the profection year selects another. Each line says where that clock stands and when it next turns exact.
Saturn
Every mapped contact is behind you. More →
Jupiter
Every mapped contact is behind you.
The Nodes
Every mapped contact is behind you.
Progressed Moon
In your 2nd house since Jan 2026, until about Apr 2028. More →
Profection year
Year of the 12th house, led by Moon, until your birthday in Jul 2027. More →
Asteria · reflectionQuestions for this season.
One from the loudest chapter, one from each room running underneath. Answer one on paper or in your journal; the rest can wait.
Jupiter on your Ascendant
What is changing in how you meet the world, and what do you want to keep?
Write about thisAsteria · the practiceAddress the loud one, keep the rest.
A short protocol: one act for the loudest chapter, one for the quieter room underneath, so neither gets dropped.
For the Jupiter on your Ascendant
Give that corner of your life one steady act of attention each week while the crossing lasts.
And keep the background running
Once a week, look at your money for ten minutes and name one thing that already makes you feel secure.
Check in
Once a month, ask which chapter is asking for proof now. It changes.
Asteria · todayThe sky right now.
The Moon is in Taurus
7°29' · transiting your
9th house. Phase:
Full · the bloom.
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.
Asteria · year-lord transitsThe year lord’s weather.
Transits to your year lord (Moon) over the next 12 months. The planet that rules the year gets hit, and the year gets reshaped around it.
July 24, 2027
square
Jupiter square
Moon
Asteria · the short returnsThis month, this year.
The Moon comes back to its birth place every month and the Sun every year. Each return casts a fresh chart that shapes the stretch until the next.
Solar Return
2026-07-05 09:04 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.
Asteria · eclipses aheadEclipses that touch your chart.
Solar and lunar eclipses in roughly the next eighteen months that land on a natal placement. Each one activates whatever the eclipse degree sits on.
February 6, 2027
Solar
Aquarius 17°38'
conjunction your Chiron
(6th house) · orb
0.3°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
conjunction your Jupiter
(11th house) · orb
1.0°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
conjunction your North Node
(11th house) · orb
2.0°
January 12, 2028
Lunar
Cancer 21°28'
opposition your South Node
(11th house) · orb
2.0°
January 26, 2028
Solar
Aquarius 6°11'
opposition your Mercury
(6th house) · orb
0.2°
Asteria · retrogradesBackward passes, now and ahead.
A planet looks like it moves backward for a while. It is an inward pass: a second look at what that planet rules.
Retrograde now
until November 13, 2026
℞
Scorpio 20°39'
Mercury retrograding through your
3rd house.
until November 14, 2026
℞
Libra 29°19'
Venus retrograding through your
3rd house.
until December 10, 2026
℞
Aries 9°39'
Saturn retrograding through your
8th house.
until February 8, 2027
℞
Gemini 4°52'
Uranus retrograding through your
10th house.
until December 12, 2026
℞
Aries 2°12'
Neptune retrograding through your
8th house.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars in the next 12 months
October 26, 2026 → November 13, 2026
℞
Scorpio
Mercury stations retrograde at
Scorpio 20° and turns
direct at Scorpio 5°.
October 26, 2026 → November 14, 2026
℞
Libra
Venus stations retrograde at
Libra 29° and turns
direct at Libra 22°.
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°.
Asteria · plain wordsThe words on this page.
The astrology terms stay because they are the ones you will see everywhere. Here is what each one means.
Cycle
A planet travelling all the way around your chart and back to where it started. Several run at once, at different speeds.
Return
A planet back on the exact degree it held when you were born. Jupiter returns about every 12 years, Saturn about every 29.
Square and opposition
The quarter and halfway points of a cycle. They mark check-ins between returns.
Nodal return and reversal
The lunar nodes, the axis of direction in your chart, coming back to their birth place (every 18.6 years) or flipping end for end (halfway between).
Profection year
An ancient timing method: each birthday, the chart moves forward one house. That house and the planet that rules it lead the year.
Progressed Moon
Your emotional life as it matures, spending about two and a half years in each house.
Eclipse season
The few weeks around a solar or lunar eclipse, roughly twice a year. Eclipses touching your chart act as turning points.
Loud
Closest to exact right now. Every cycle is always running; the loud one is the one asking for attention.
Exact and felt
Exact is the precise date a contact peaks. It is felt for weeks or months either side.
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