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The sky on
12 June 2023.

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

The MoonLast Quarter32% lit, waning

Moon inAries12° Aries

Sun inGemini21° Gemini

Pluto is retrograde.

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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
SunGemini21°Direct
MoonAries12°Direct
MercuryGemini1°Direct
VenusLeo6°Direct
MarsLeo13°Direct
JupiterTaurus5°Direct
SaturnPisces7°Direct
UranusTaurus20°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Moon trine Mars0.3°
  • Venus square Jupiter0.6°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn1.4°
  • Mercury trine Pluto1.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.4°
  • Mercury sextile Neptune4.1°
  • Mercury sextile Venus4.7°
  • Mercury square Saturn5.5°

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.