In shortFrom December 13, 2025 to December 13, 2026 you are in a 1st-house year: the threshold where you meet the world. Mars rules it, and in your birth chart Mars sits in Scorpio in the 1st house. This month the focus narrows to the 11th house.
This year occupies the threshold where you meet the world. Mars is the teacher assigned to it. The curriculum is a self you start from on purpose: the body, the look, the direction. What the year takes is the performance of a self that only holds while someone is watching. What remains is a stance you can repeat on an ordinary day.
Asteria · the year in real lifeWhat this year tends to look likeA new look, a new routine, or a decision about direction.
General patterns for this room. Not a prediction, a description.
- A new look, a new routine, or a decision about direction.
- People notice you more, and you notice how you come across.
- Starting things on your own initiative instead of waiting.
Asteria · to sit withQuestions for this yearWhat would you start this year if nobody needed to approve it?
Drawn from this year's room and its year-lord.
What would you start this year if nobody needed to approve it?
Write about thisMars is in Scorpio in your chart. Where is control standing in for trust?
Write about thisMars already lives in this year's room. What has it been doing there all along?
Write about this
Asteria · the year-lordMars in Scorpio1st house in your birth chart; now in Leo
Where the teacher sits in your birth chart, and where it is walking now.
The teacher moves by going to the bottom of the thing. The curriculum costs more when control stands in for trust.
Asteria · inside the yearThis month11th house, carried by Venus, until November 13, 2026
From October 13, 2026 → November 13, 2026.
This month opens the room of allies and the long future. Venus carries the month inside the year. The year's room stays the threshold where you meet the world. The month is a smaller assignment, not a new life.
Asteria · monthly profectionThe 12 monthly shifts inside the yearOne step a month, starting on your birthday
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.
Asteria · the glossaryWords on this pageProfection, Year-lord, House, Cusp
- Profection
- An old timing method: each birthday moves the focus one house forward, so every twelve years the cycle starts again.
- Year-lord
- The planet that rules the sign on this year's house. It is the teacher of the year.
- House
- One of twelve areas of life, counted from the rising sign.
- Cusp
- The starting edge of a house. The sign on it chooses the house's ruler.
- Monthly profection
- The same step, one house a month, inside the year. A smaller assignment.
- Transit
- Where a planet is in the sky now, measured against your birth chart.
- Retrograde
- A planet that looks like it is moving backward from Earth. The lesson turns inward before it shows.
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