From October 25, 2025 → October 25, 2026, your chart's spotlight rotates onto the 4th house: home, family, ancestry, the inner foundation. With Mars as your year lord, the year lord is Mars: drive, conflict, heat, and surgery. Mars transits, returns, and retrogrades time the fights worth having and the energy you must spend.
Mars steers the year
A year that turns inward. Home moves, family threads, the inner private self. What gets built privately this year is what holds in the years that follow.
Pay close attention to anything that aspects Mars this year: transits to your year lord, returns, ingresses, retrogrades. Each is the year's weather at its most personal.
Profections · Juan Soto
Asteria · reading the year aheadWhat to look at and what to look for
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.
the year lord is Mars: drive, conflict, heat, and surgery. Mars transits, returns, and retrogrades time the fights worth having and the energy you must spend.
In your natal chart
Start here before you chase transits.
- the sign on your 4th-house cusp (IC) and the year lord: the emotional architecture you return to when tired.
- the Moon's natal placement: the body's idea of safety.
- planets in the 4th: who or what lives in your foundation.
- aspects to the IC and year lord: the fault lines in home and heritage.
- Saturn or Pluto touching the 4th or year lord: years when the foundation must be rebuilt, not decorated.
In the sky this year
Mark dates when the year lord or profected house is touched; those are the year's loudest weather.
- transits to the year lord from Saturn or Pluto: slow remodels of family structure or living situation.
- eclipses on the 4th/10th axis: career and home trade places in priority; one rises, one demands repair.
- Jupiter transiting the 4th: expansion of space, family, or emotional generosity.
- Mars through the 4th: arguments in the kitchen; act, do not only simmer.
- New and Full Moons falling in your 4th house: monthly pulses on domestic themes.
Inside the twelve months
months activating the 10th inside a 4th-house year can pull you onto the street when you would rather nest; months in the 12th ask for solitude to process family material.
Where it goes wrong
nostalgia as an excuse to avoid the present, clinging to a childhood role, or renovating the kitchen to dodge grief.
What the year is asking
tend the root. make one real improvement to where or how you live, and tell the truth about what your family story still asks of you.
you should end the year anchored: a home that fits, or an honest truce with the one you cannot leave yet.
Asteria · monthly profectionThe 12 monthly shifts inside the year
Inside the profection year the active house also rotates one step every month, starting on your birthday. The monthly lord is the planet ruling each month's house cusp: a smaller secondary thread alongside the year lord.
does this land for you? tell me · your read shapes the next build.