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The sky on
9 November 2023.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent15% lit, waning

Moon inLibra1° Libra

Sun inScorpio16° Scorpio

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde.

8 November 2023 Today 10 November 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
SunScorpio16°Direct
MoonLibra1°Direct
MercuryScorpio28°Direct
VenusLibra1°Direct
MarsScorpio19°Direct
JupiterTaurus9°Retrograde
SaturnPisces0°Direct
UranusTaurus21°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn28°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon conjunction Venus0.7°
  • Mercury sextile Pluto0.7°
  • Mercury square Saturn1.7°
  • Mars opposition Uranus1.8°
  • Mercury sextile Venus2.4°
  • Sun conjunction Mars2.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.0°
  • Moon sextile Mercury3.1°

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.