✦How it works
Profections are one of the oldest timing tools in astrology. Starting at birth, each year of life moves you one house forward, beginning with the first house. Age 0 is the 1st house, age 1 the 2nd, and so on; at 12 you come back to the 1st. The sign on that house is your profected sign, and the planet that rules it is your Lord of the Year. Its condition and what it does by transit are said to colour the year, from one birthday to the next. Each year is split into twelve months, moving one sign per month.
Houses are counted the whole-sign way, from the sign of your rising sign. A birth time is needed. Traditional rulers are used (Mars for Scorpio, Saturn for Aquarius, Jupiter for Pisces).