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The sky on
19 May 2023.

Every planet at noon, Greenwich time, with the Moon’s phase and what was retrograde.

The MoonNew Moon0% lit, waning

Moon inTaurus26° Taurus

Sun inTaurus28° Taurus

Pluto is retrograde.

18 May 2023 Today 20 May 2023

The zodiac with Aries at the left, every planet in its sign and the Moon at the centre, lit as it is that day.

Every planet

PlanetSignDegreeMotion
SunTaurus28°Direct
MoonTaurus26°Direct
MercuryTaurus6°Direct
VenusCancer12°Direct
MarsCancer29°Direct
JupiterTaurus0°Direct
SaturnPisces6°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoAquarius0°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury sextile Saturn0.1°
  • Jupiter square Pluto0.3°
  • Moon sextile Neptune0.9°
  • Mars opposition Pluto0.9°
  • Sun sextile Mars1.1°
  • Sun sextile Neptune1.1°
  • Mars square Jupiter1.3°
  • Sun conjunction Moon2.0°

The number is the orb: how far the two planets are from the exact angle.

Reading the wheel

The outer ring is the zodiac, with Aries at the left and the signs running counterclockwise, the way a birth chart is drawn. Each planet sits at its place in its sign. The lines across the middle join planets in a major aspect: blue for the easy ones, trines and sextiles, and rose for the tense ones, squares and oppositions.

What retrograde means

A planet is retrograde when, seen from Earth, it seems to move backwards through the zodiac for a while. It is an effect of our own orbit overtaking it, or it overtaking us. Astrology reads those weeks as a time to review, repair and return, rather than to begin.

The Moon’s phase and sign

The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, and goes from new to full and back in about twenty nine and a half. At any one moment its sign and phase are the same wherever you are on Earth.