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The sky on
18 July 2023.

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

The MoonNew Moon0% lit, waxing

Moon inLeo3° Leo

Sun inCancer25° Cancer

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

17 July 2023 Today 19 July 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
SunCancer25°Direct
MoonLeo3°Direct
MercuryLeo13°Direct
VenusLeo28°Direct
MarsVirgo4°Direct
JupiterTaurus12°Direct
SaturnPisces6°Retrograde
UranusTaurus22°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury square Jupiter1.6°
  • Mars opposition Saturn1.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.6°
  • Sun trine Neptune2.0°
  • Sun sextile Uranus3.3°
  • Sun opposition Pluto3.6°
  • Moon opposition Pluto4.5°
  • Venus square Uranus5.8°

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.