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The sky on
4 February 2024.

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

The MoonLast Quarter35% lit, waning

Moon inSagittarius2° Sagittarius

Sun inAquarius15° Aquarius

No planet is retrograde.

3 February 2024 Today 5 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
SunAquarius15°Direct
MoonSagittarius2°Direct
MercuryCapricorn28°Direct
VenusCapricorn14°Direct
MarsCapricorn23°Direct
JupiterTaurus7°Direct
SaturnPisces6°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Direct
NeptunePisces25°Direct
PlutoAquarius0°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Jupiter sextile Saturn0.8°
  • Mercury conjunction Pluto1.6°
  • Moon sextile Pluto2.5°
  • Mars sextile Neptune2.6°
  • Mercury sextile Neptune3.0°
  • Moon square Saturn3.9°
  • Sun square Uranus4.0°
  • Moon sextile Mercury4.1°

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.