Astrological ages | PlutonicDesire

Major cycles & transits

18	Prenatal eclipse return + Nodal return	Turning point, choices, seeking purpose, fork in the road feeling. What happens around this age is often defining, foreshadowing at future themes or topics that will return, can be life altering. Choice that changes the trajectory, meeting a person or situation that “reorients purpose,” endings that clear space for a new direction.
24	12th house Profection	Ending cycle, inward process, closing off a chapter, mental/psychological process, changes. Needing less noise, withdrawal, endings that happen quietly, resurfacing memories, increased sensitivity, sleep/dream intensity, mental processing, invisible stress showing up in the body.
27	Progressed New Moon	Important endings, cleansing, recharging, reset, change in emotional needs, conclusion. Identity reorientation, priorities dropping off, a new inner storyline beginning quietly before it’s visible externally.
28-30	Saturn return	Maturation, responsibility, closing off childhood, testing, boundaries, seeking approval from society, identity crisis, tendency to blame things. Reality pressure, accountability, consequences, boundaries, testing of structures, pruning of friendships/goals, sobriety about time, work, duty, and self-respect.
36	Prenatal Eclipse return	Crisis that reveals the truth, redirection, a purpose question that becomes urgent, an old path no longer tolerable, opportunity for change, turning point.
36	12th house Profection	Ending cycle, closing off a chapter, spiritual growth. Closure, spiritual value becoming real (not aesthetic), deeper solitude, a sharper view of self-undoing patterns, “I can’t keep living like this.”
36-37	Saturn square (waxing)	Judging goals, friction between what you want and what you can sustain, suppressed pressure surfacing, “this plan needs to be rebuilt.”
37-43	Pluto square	Crisis, transformation, fears, psychological clean out, major endings. Psychological clean-out, intensity, obsession/compulsion themes, power dynamics, fear confrontation, endings that feel fated, identity stripping.
40-43	Neptune square	Reconsider dreams, boundaries, spiritual value. Confusion, disillusionment, boundary issues, spiritual revaluation, inspiration vs depletion, idealism tested by reality.
40-42	Uranus opposition	Midlife crisis, restlessness, examination, choices. Urge for freedom, rebellion, sudden changes, identity edits, relationship redefinitions, “I can’t keep living in this container.”
43-44	Saturn opposition	Midlife wake-up call, reality check, re-evaluate efforts from the past, sober review of the last cycle, cutting ties with the old, grounding work, radical changes in circumstances, psychological changes, recommitting, accepting limits, respecting time.
44	Prenatal Eclipse return	Crisis, turning point, finding purpose, changes. Redirect, choices, “this is the real path,” a karmic-feeling turning point.
48	12th house profection	Ending cycle, letting go of the old, spiritual value, loss.
50-52	Chiron return	Embracing vulnerability and the reality of the human body, uncovering and confronting (old) wounds, identity around pain, mentorship themes, “what hurt becomes what I understand.”
53	Saturn square (closing)	Confrontation with reality and physical body, testing the acceptance of reality, death of young adulthood.
60	12th house profection	Ending cycle, letting go of the old, spiritual growth.
59-63	Saturn return	Re-evaluation of the past 30 years, time awareness, second adulthood, rhythm, responsibility in a new form, legacy shaping.
72	Prenatal Eclipse return	Crisis, turning point, redirect, karmic. Closure and reorientation.
72	12th house profection	Ending cycle, spiritual growth, transcending.
84	Uranus return	Redefining freedom, shedding self-imposed restrictions, consciousness shift, late-life liberation themes.
84	12th house profection	Ending cycle, spiritual growth, transcending, deep solitude.
88-90	Saturn return	Last chapter themes, sharing wisdom, seriousness, refinement, simplifying life, mortality awareness, legacy, closure, meeting with limitation and time.
90	Prenatal Eclipse return	Turning point, redirect, karmic, inward processing, closure.
96	12th house profection	Ending cycle, spiritual growth, transcending, closure.