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The sky on
25 October 2023.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous85% lit, waxing

Moon inPisces16° Pisces

Sun inScorpio1° Scorpio

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 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
SunScorpio1°Direct
MoonPisces16°Direct
MercuryScorpio5°Direct
VenusVirgo15°Direct
MarsScorpio9°Direct
JupiterTaurus11°Retrograde
SaturnPisces0°Retrograde
UranusTaurus21°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn27°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun trine Saturn1.2°
  • Moon opposition Venus1.2°
  • Mars opposition Jupiter2.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.6°
  • Sun conjunction Mercury3.5°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.5°
  • Venus trine Jupiter3.7°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars3.8°

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.