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The sky on
2 October 2023.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous88% lit, waning

Moon inTaurus20° Taurus

Sun inLibra9° Libra

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

1 October 2023 Today 3 October 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
SunLibra9°Direct
MoonTaurus20°Direct
MercuryVirgo25°Direct
VenusLeo24°Direct
MarsLibra23°Direct
JupiterTaurus14°Retrograde
SaturnPisces1°Retrograde
UranusTaurus22°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn27°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury opposition Neptune0.3°
  • Venus sextile Mars1.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.0°
  • Venus square Uranus2.1°
  • Moon conjunction Uranus2.3°
  • Mercury trine Pluto2.3°
  • Mercury trine Uranus3.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.3°

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.