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The sky on
18 September 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent11% lit, waxing

Moon inScorpio3° Scorpio

Sun inVirgo25° Virgo

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

17 September 2023 Today 19 September 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
SunVirgo25°Direct
MoonScorpio3°Direct
MercuryVirgo8°Direct
VenusLeo15°Direct
MarsLibra14°Direct
JupiterTaurus15°Retrograde
SaturnPisces2°Retrograde
UranusTaurus22°Retrograde
NeptunePisces26°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn28°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus square Jupiter0.6°
  • Sun opposition Neptune1.0°
  • Moon trine Saturn1.4°
  • Venus sextile Mars1.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.7°
  • Sun trine Uranus2.4°
  • Sun trine Pluto2.7°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.4°

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.