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The sky on
12 January 2024.

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

The MoonNew Moon1% lit, waxing

Moon inAquarius5° Aquarius

Sun inCapricorn21° Capricorn

Uranus is 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
SunCapricorn21°Direct
MoonAquarius5°Direct
MercurySagittarius28°Direct
VenusSagittarius16°Direct
MarsCapricorn5°Direct
JupiterTaurus5°Direct
SaturnPisces4°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mars trine Jupiter0.0°
  • Moon square Jupiter0.3°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn1.5°
  • Mars sextile Saturn1.6°
  • Sun trine Uranus2.6°
  • Mercury square Neptune3.0°
  • Sun sextile Neptune3.5°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.4°

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.