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The sky on
21 June 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent10% lit, waxing

Moon inLeo6° Leo

Sun inGemini29° Gemini

Saturn and Pluto are retrograde.

20 June 2023 Today 22 June 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
SunGemini29°Direct
MoonLeo6°Direct
MercuryGemini18°Direct
VenusLeo13°Direct
MarsLeo18°Direct
JupiterTaurus7°Direct
SaturnPisces7°Retrograde
UranusTaurus21°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury sextile Mars0.2°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn0.4°
  • Moon square Jupiter0.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.1°
  • Sun square Neptune2.2°
  • Mars square Uranus2.7°
  • Mercury sextile Venus4.4°
  • Venus conjunction Mars4.6°

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.