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The sky on
27 January 2024.

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

The MoonFull Moon97% lit, waning

Moon inLeo26° Leo

Sun inAquarius7° Aquarius

No planet 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
SunAquarius7°Direct
MoonLeo26°Direct
MercuryCapricorn17°Direct
VenusCapricorn5°Direct
MarsCapricorn17°Direct
JupiterTaurus6°Direct
SaturnPisces5°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Direct
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoAquarius0°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mercury conjunction Mars0.1°
  • Sun square Jupiter0.2°
  • Venus sextile Saturn0.8°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn0.9°
  • Venus trine Jupiter1.8°
  • Mars trine Uranus1.9°
  • Mercury trine Uranus2.0°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.6°

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.