Astrolium's Time-Lords module puts four classical timing systems on one screen for one client: annual profections, Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit and Fortune, Firdaria and Valens' decennials. A single focus-age slider drives all of them. Time-Lords is part of the $11 per month Pro plan and is also included in Astrolium Personal; see pricing.
To try one technique at a time first, use the free profections calculator, the zodiacal releasing tool or the firdaria calculator.
What the Time-Lords module does
One age, four clocks
The header carries a focus-age slider from 0 to 120 and a Jump to the present button. The module opens on the client's current age, so the first screen is today. Move the slider and every section follows. The profected house, the ZR chapter, the Firdaria lord and the decennial distributor all describe the same year of life, which is the whole point of reading them together.
The Snapshot sits above the sections with one card per system: the annual profection with its house, sign and Lord of the Year; the Firdaria major period and its current sub-lord; the decennial L1 period; and ZR from Spirit and from Fortune, each with its ruler. Click a card and the page jumps to that technique.
Which sections appear is up to you. Settings has a Time-Lord Methods selection with all four techniques. Switch one off and its section leaves the page. A practitioner who never reads decennials does not scroll past them.
Annual profections
This is the section with the most detail. A profection ring shows the activated house and the Lord of the Year. Below it, the module lists the natal planets in the activated sign and tells you where the Lord of the Year sits natally, with a reminder to read that planet's condition and its transits for the year.
Two strips extend the view. The monthly strip walks the activated sign and its lord forward one month at a time, starting from the birth month. The year-by-year strip shows which house each age activates across the whole life, so the next return to the first or the tenth is visible without counting on your fingers.
Then there is a degree-based layer. Astrolium requests the profected positions for the year from AstroAPI and lists their aspects to the natal chart, with the rows that touch the Lord of the Year marked. It sits next to the whole-sign activation and does not replace it. The annual profections guide walks through a full delineation.
Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit and Fortune
A toggle switches the releasing lot. The L1 bar runs across the life in sign periods: peak periods on the angular signs carry a triangle, and Loosing of the Bond carries its own marker. Select an L1 chapter and the L2 sub-periods within that sign open underneath, each with its ruler, plus a short interpretation note for the sub-period the focus age falls in.
Read the zodiacal releasing guide for how peaks and the bond are interpreted.
Firdaria
Firdaria is the Persian period system, and the module reads the natal sect before it draws anything. A day chart gets the day sequence. A night chart gets the night sequence, and the period lengths follow from that choice. Each major lord opens into its L2 sub-periods. The nodal periods have no sub-periods, and the section labels them that way instead of inventing a split.
Decennials
Decennials come from Vettius Valens. The section names the starting planet, then runs the seven classical planets in the order they stand in the chart. Each major period lasts 10 years 9 months, 129 months in all, and its sub-periods are listed by month.
That order needs all seven planets. If one of them is turned off in Settings under Chart Points, Astrolium says so and does not guess the active lord.
Outside the module
The per-client transits view carries a compact strip of the active time lords for today: profection, Firdaria, decennials, and ZR from Spirit and Fortune, always in that order. It opens the full module in one click. If the timing service has a problem, the strip hides itself rather than break the transit screen.
Ask AI with the periods attached
Every section has an Ask AI button, and each one sends the computed periods rather than a generic question. The profection prompt carries the activated house, the Lord of the Year's natal sign, any activated natal planets, and the tightest degree-based aspects that touch the lord. The Snapshot button asks the AI assistant to synthesise the verified active lords at that age and say where they agree.
When a calculation fails
The periods come from Astrolium's timing service. If it returns an incomplete result, the section says the calculation is unavailable and offers a retry. No locally computed stand-in is drawn in its place. When a refresh fails after an earlier success, the last verified result stays up with a note saying so.
The Report button in the header opens either the built-in multi-page Astrolium PDF or Report Studio, where you build a custom report in your own voice. More on both in PDF reports.
How it fits with the rest of Astrolium
Predictive timing describes the layered method: profections for the year, releasing for the chapter, transits for the day. Time-Lords is where the first two live in full, next to Firdaria and decennials. For sect, dignities and the Hermetic lots, see the Hellenistic astrology suite. For single-chart checks without a client file, the profections calculator, zodiacal releasing tool and firdaria calculator stay free.