Annual profection is a traditional timing technique that advances one Whole Sign house for each completed year of life. The first year begins with the first house; each birthday advances the annual focus to the next house, repeating every twelve years.

Three pieces of the annual framework

• Profected house — the Whole Sign place receiving annual emphasis.
• Profected sign — the zodiacal sign occupying that house in the natal chart.
• Time lord — the traditional domicile ruler of the profected sign.

What the technique actually says

A profection identifies a place and a ruler that deserve priority in the year’s judgment. It does not make every topic of that house inevitable. The natal condition of the time lord and current testimony involving it help determine how the activation is expressed.