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The sky on
19 January 2024.

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

The MoonFirst Quarter64% lit, waxing

Moon inTaurus15° Taurus

Sun inCapricorn28° Capricorn

Uranus is retrograde.

18 January 2024 Today 20 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
SunCapricorn28°Direct
MoonTaurus15°Direct
MercuryCapricorn6°Direct
VenusSagittarius25°Direct
MarsCapricorn11°Direct
JupiterTaurus6°Direct
SaturnPisces5°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Retrograde
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mercury trine Jupiter0.1°
  • Venus square Neptune0.2°
  • Sun conjunction Pluto1.1°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn1.2°
  • Mercury sextile Saturn1.3°
  • Sun sextile Neptune3.4°
  • Moon conjunction Uranus3.4°
  • Moon trine Mars4.5°

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.