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The sky on
18 October 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent14% lit, waxing

Moon inSagittarius8° Sagittarius

Sun inLibra24° Libra

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde.

17 October 2023 Today 19 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
SunLibra24°Direct
MoonSagittarius8°Direct
MercuryLibra23°Direct
VenusVirgo8°Direct
MarsScorpio4°Direct
JupiterTaurus12°Retrograde
SaturnPisces0°Retrograde
UranusTaurus22°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn27°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon square Venus0.4°
  • Sun conjunction Mercury1.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.4°
  • Sun square Pluto3.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.4°
  • Mars trine Saturn3.5°
  • Venus trine Jupiter4.0°
  • Mercury square Pluto4.3°

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.