Your Age in Astrology
At 83 your profected house is the 12th: solitude and the unconscious. How the age gives you the house, which planet runs your year for each rising sign, and the Jupiter return that lands at this age.
Annual profections is one of the oldest techniques in Western astrology and one of the simplest. The year you are born is a first house year. Each birthday the focus advances one house. At twelve you are back in the first, at twenty-four again, and so on for as long as you live. So the arithmetic is: take your age, divide by twelve, and the remainder plus one is the house.
For 83: 83 divided by 12 leaves 11, so 11 plus one gives the 12th house. That makes this your 7th time through it. The last time was at 71, and before that at 59, 47, 35, 23, 11.
That is worth doing something with. Profections is one of the few techniques where you can check it against your own life rather than taking it on faith: think about what was happening at 71 and at 59 and at 47 and at 35 and at 23 and at 11. If the technique is describing anything real, those years should have something in common with each other, and the common thread should be retreat.
The 12th house covers rest, secrets, grief and the part of you nobody sees. A year that lands here tends to put rest, grief, hidden things, institutions and the part of life nobody sees at the centre of things, whether or not you had planned on it.
The question a 12th house year asks is what you have been carrying without saying so. What these years commonly bring: withdrawal, a health or grief matter, therapy, or a quiet year that turns out to have been necessary. What to watch for: expecting the year to produce something visible, when it is the year before the first house.
This is the part that makes profections worth more than a list of themes. The ruler of the sign on your profected house becomes the time lord: the planet whose year it is. Everything it touches by transit for the next twelve months carries more weight than it otherwise would, and where it sits in your birth chart tells you what kind of year to expect.
Because the houses are counted from your rising sign, the answer is different for each of the twelve. Find your rising sign in the left column.
| If your rising sign is | Your 12th house is | Your time lord this year |
|---|---|---|
| Aries | Pisces | Jupiter |
| Taurus | Aries | Mars |
| Gemini | Taurus | Venus |
| Cancer | Gemini | Mercury |
| Leo | Cancer | the Moon |
| Virgo | Leo | the Sun |
| Libra | Virgo | Mercury |
| Scorpio | Libra | Venus |
| Sagittarius | Scorpio | Mars |
| Capricorn | Sagittarius | Jupiter |
| Aquarius | Capricorn | Saturn |
| Pisces | Aquarius | Saturn |
So at 83 the year belongs to Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, the Sun or Saturn, depending on where you start counting. If you do not know your rising sign, you need your birth time, and this covers how to find it.
Once you know which planet it is, the useful question is where that planet sits in your own chart: which sign, which house, and what it touches. A time lord sitting in a comfortable place tends to make an easier year of the same theme. The traditional rule is that the year goes the way the time lord goes.
Profections runs on a twelve-year wheel, and the slower cycles run on their own schedules. One of them reaches a turning point at this age.
| Transit | Lands at | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter return | age 83.0 | Jupiter comes back round. Traditionally a year of growth and opportunity, and realistically a year when it is easier than usual to get a yes. |
These dates come from the actual orbital periods rather than from rounding. Saturn takes 29.457 years to go round, Jupiter 11.862, the lunar nodes 18.6, Uranus 84.02 and Chiron 50.42. That is why the Saturn return lands at 29.5 and not at thirty, and why it will be a few months either side of that for you depending on where Saturn was when you were born.
At 84 the focus moves to the 1st house: self and first impressions. That is worth knowing a few months ahead, because the last stretch of a profected year usually has the next one showing through it. This is particularly true going from a twelfth house year into a first: the twelfth is the year of clearing out, and the first is the year of starting again, and the handover is often the most noticeable one of the twelve.
The table above gives you the time lord for all twelve rising signs because a page cannot know yours. Your own chart can: where the time lord sits, what it rules elsewhere, and what it is about to be hit by. The annual profections method in full is here, and the solar return chart is the other technique that starts on your birthday.
The 12th house: solitude and the unconscious. 83 divided by twelve leaves 11, and 11 plus one is 12.
It depends on your rising sign, because the houses are counted from it. At 83 it is one of Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Moon, the Sun, Saturn. The table on this page gives the answer for all twelve rising signs.
Yes. Jupiter return land at this age.
It puts rest, grief, hidden things, institutions and the part of life nobody sees at the centre of the year. The question it asks is what you have been carrying without saying so.
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