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The sky on
10 January 2024.

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

The MoonNew Moon1% lit, waning

Moon inCapricorn6° Capricorn

Sun inCapricorn19° Capricorn

Uranus is retrograde.

9 January 2024 Today 11 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
SunCapricorn19°Direct
MoonCapricorn6°Direct
MercurySagittarius26°Direct
VenusSagittarius14°Direct
MarsCapricorn4°Direct
JupiterTaurus5°Direct
SaturnPisces4°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mars sextile Saturn0.3°
  • Sun trine Uranus0.5°
  • Moon trine Jupiter0.5°
  • Mercury square Neptune1.2°
  • Mars trine Jupiter1.4°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn1.6°
  • Moon conjunction Mars1.8°
  • Moon sextile Saturn2.1°

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.