Your Big Cycles

Ahead of you

Dec 2030, age 35: Jupiter return. A new twelve-year cycle of growth begins. A good year to start something.

May 2032, age 37: Saturn square. A test of what you've been building. Something needs more structure, or less.

Aug 2032, age 37: Nodal return. A reset of direction. The people and choices of this year tend to matter more than they seem to at the time.

May 2036, age 41: Neptune square. Old dreams get re-examined. What do you still believe in?

Oct 2038, age 43: Saturn opposition. A halfway check. You can see clearly what is working and what isn't.

Aug 2039, age 44: Uranus opposition. The midlife shake-up. Whatever you've outgrown gets very loud.

Nov 2042, age 47: Jupiter return. A new twelve-year cycle of growth begins. A good year to start something.

Aug 2045, age 50: Chiron return. Around fifty, old hurts come round once more, this time with the perspective to make peace with them and to pass on what you learned.

Behind you

Look back at these years. Most people can name what shifted.

Sep 2009, age 14: Saturn opposition. A halfway check. You can see clearly what is working and what isn't.

Jan 2014, age 19: Nodal return. A reset of direction. The people and choices of this year tend to matter more than they seem to at the time.

Jan 2017, age 22: Saturn square. A test of what you've been building. Something needs more structure, or less.

May 2018, age 23: Uranus square. A break for independence. You stop living someone else's plan.

Dec 2018, age 24: Jupiter return. A new twelve-year cycle of growth begins. A good year to start something.

Mar 2025, age 30: Saturn return. The structure of your life is tested and rebuilt. The first one is adulthood arriving properly; the second is about what you leave behind.

How to read this

Everyone born around when you were meets these at about the same age. That's why your friends hit the same walls at the same time. The dates are when each cycle first becomes exact; its effect is usually felt across the year around it.