Read the two rings in their own time frames
The blue inner ring shows planetary positions at the recorded birth moment. The rust outer ring shows the planets at the selected symbolic tertiary II lunar return. The ring is a shared tropical zodiac scale. A planet's movement across the two rings is a comparison between birth and a progressed ephemeris time, not the observed movement between birth and the visitor's target date. The table gives the sign and degree beside each other, avoiding overinterpretation of crowded glyphs.
This site's pair uses the same numerical result, changing only the presentation. The target UTC moment selects a completed tropical year: the chart holds steady until the next boundary, then changes to the following progressed Moon return. That differs from the continuous tertiary II calculator, which samples a new symbolic date as the target time moves.
What a contact in the table says
The cross-chart list checks major aspects between progressed return planets and natal planets, restricted to one degree of orb. A conjunction is zero degrees, sextile sixty, square ninety, trine one hundred twenty, and opposition one hundred eighty. The rows are sorted by smallest angular difference from those exact separations. The result does not turn an aspect into a prediction. Planet positions near a sign boundary can vary when the actual birth time or historical offset differs from the entered values.
The Moon's exact return target is birth longitude, so the progressed Moon and natal Moon should appear at the same zodiac degree. The page displays a residual after the nearest-minute chart sample; this tiny remainder is rounding, while the event solver itself is run to a finer numerical tolerance. The two rings contain the same ten planets and no progressed Ascendant or houses. Progressed angles have multiple conventions, and pretending one is required would hide a meaningful method choice.
Check the time basis before interpretation
Historical UTC offsets may be changed by daylight-saving rules and past time-zone legislation. The calculator asks for the offset that applied to the local birth clock; it does not guess from the user's current device location. Its active-year boundaries are displayed in UTC and use a fixed 365.242199-day tropical-year key. A civil birthday can fall slightly before or after such a boundary. The chart is a traditional symbolic construction, not a measured event in the later sky.
For the progressed planets alone, use the standalone yearly lunar return. For a real transiting Moon return with location-dependent houses, use the natal plus ordinary lunar return biwheel. Those tools answer different timing questions even though all three titles include “lunar return.”
