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The sky on
4 January 2024.

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

The MoonLast Quarter47% lit, waning

Moon inLibra17° Libra

Sun inCapricorn13° Capricorn

Uranus is retrograde.

3 January 2024 Today 5 January 2024

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
SunCapricorn13°Direct
MoonLibra17°Direct
MercurySagittarius22°Direct
VenusSagittarius6°Direct
MarsSagittarius29°Direct
JupiterTaurus5°Direct
SaturnPisces3°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Jupiter sextile Saturn2.1°
  • Mercury square Neptune2.5°
  • Venus square Saturn3.3°
  • Mars sextile Saturn3.6°
  • Sun square Moon3.9°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.3°
  • Mars square Neptune4.8°
  • Sun trine Uranus5.7°

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.