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The sky on
1 November 2023.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous85% lit, waning

Moon inGemini24° Gemini

Sun inScorpio8° 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
SunScorpio8°Direct
MoonGemini24°Direct
MercuryScorpio16°Direct
VenusVirgo22°Direct
MarsScorpio13°Direct
JupiterTaurus10°Retrograde
SaturnPisces0°Retrograde
UranusTaurus21°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn28°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon square Neptune0.3°
  • Venus trine Uranus1.1°
  • Sun opposition Jupiter1.9°
  • Moon square Venus2.3°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars2.6°
  • Venus opposition Neptune2.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.8°
  • Mars opposition Jupiter3.2°

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.