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The sky on
21 February 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous92% lit, waxing

Moon inCancer29° Cancer

Sun inPisces2° Pisces

No planet is retrograde.

20 February 2024 Today 22 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
SunPisces2°Direct
MoonCancer29°Direct
MercuryAquarius26°Direct
VenusAquarius5°Direct
MarsAquarius6°Direct
JupiterTaurus9°Direct
SaturnPisces8°Direct
UranusTaurus19°Direct
NeptunePisces26°Direct
PlutoAquarius0°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Venus conjunction Mars0.4°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn1.1°
  • Moon opposition Pluto1.8°
  • Moon trine Neptune2.7°
  • Mars square Jupiter3.6°
  • Venus square Jupiter4.0°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.6°
  • Venus conjunction Pluto5.0°

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.