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The sky on
31 January 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous73% lit, waning

Moon inLibra13° Libra

Sun inAquarius11° Aquarius

No planet is retrograde.

30 January 2024 Today 1 February 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
SunAquarius11°Direct
MoonLibra13°Direct
MercuryCapricorn22°Direct
VenusCapricorn10°Direct
MarsCapricorn20°Direct
JupiterTaurus7°Direct
SaturnPisces6°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Direct
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoAquarius0°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Jupiter sextile Saturn0.9°
  • Mars trine Uranus1.1°
  • Sun trine Moon2.7°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars2.7°
  • Venus trine Jupiter2.8°
  • Mercury sextile Neptune2.9°
  • Venus sextile Saturn3.6°
  • Moon square Venus3.7°

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.