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The sky on
5 August 2023.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous81% lit, waning

Moon inAries5° Aries

Sun inLeo12° Leo

Venus, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are 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
SunLeo12°Direct
MoonAries5°Direct
MercuryVirgo9°Direct
VenusLeo25°Retrograde
MarsVirgo16°Direct
JupiterTaurus14°Direct
SaturnPisces5°Retrograde
UranusTaurus22°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn28°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun square Jupiter1.3°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.4°
  • Mars trine Jupiter1.9°
  • Venus square Uranus2.2°
  • Mercury opposition Saturn4.3°
  • Mercury trine Jupiter4.4°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune4.5°
  • Uranus trine Pluto6.0°

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.