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The sky on
13 January 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent6% lit, waxing

Moon inAquarius20° Aquarius

Sun inCapricorn22° Capricorn

Uranus is retrograde.

12 January 2024 Today 14 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
SunCapricorn22°Direct
MoonAquarius20°Direct
MercurySagittarius29°Direct
VenusSagittarius17°Direct
MarsCapricorn6°Direct
JupiterTaurus5°Direct
SaturnPisces4°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mars trine Jupiter0.7°
  • Moon square Uranus1.2°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn1.5°
  • Mars sextile Saturn2.2°
  • Sun sextile Neptune2.5°
  • Moon sextile Venus2.5°
  • Sun trine Uranus3.6°
  • Mercury square Neptune4.0°

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.