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The sky on
22 May 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent8% lit, waxing

Moon inCancer4° Cancer

Sun inGemini1° Gemini

Pluto is retrograde.

21 May 2023 Today 23 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
SunGemini1°Direct
MoonCancer4°Direct
MercuryTaurus7°Direct
VenusCancer15°Direct
MarsLeo1°Direct
JupiterTaurus1°Direct
SaturnPisces6°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoAquarius0°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun sextile Mars0.1°
  • Mars square Jupiter0.2°
  • Mars opposition Pluto0.8°
  • Sun trine Pluto0.9°
  • Jupiter square Pluto1.1°
  • Mercury sextile Saturn1.2°
  • Moon trine Saturn2.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.0°

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.