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The sky on
23 June 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent24% lit, waxing

Moon inVirgo0° Virgo

Sun inCancer1° Cancer

Saturn and Pluto are retrograde.

22 June 2023 Today 24 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
SunCancer1°Direct
MoonVirgo0°Direct
MercuryGemini22°Direct
VenusLeo15°Direct
MarsLeo19°Direct
JupiterTaurus7°Direct
SaturnPisces7°Retrograde
UranusTaurus21°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Jupiter sextile Saturn0.8°
  • Sun sextile Moon1.1°
  • Mars square Uranus1.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.1°
  • Mercury sextile Mars2.7°
  • Sun square Neptune4.1°
  • Venus conjunction Mars4.2°
  • Mercury square Neptune5.2°

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.