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The sky on
21 August 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent22% lit, waxing

Moon inLibra24° Libra

Sun inLeo28° Leo

Venus, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

20 August 2023 Today 22 August 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
SunLeo28°Direct
MoonLibra24°Direct
MercuryVirgo21°Direct
VenusLeo15°Retrograde
MarsVirgo26°Direct
JupiterTaurus15°Direct
SaturnPisces4°Retrograde
UranusTaurus23°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn28°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus square Jupiter0.5°
  • Mars opposition Neptune0.9°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.4°
  • Mercury trine Uranus1.5°
  • Mars trine Pluto2.3°
  • Mars trine Uranus3.1°
  • Sun sextile Moon4.0°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune4.0°

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.