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The sky on
20 March 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous81% lit, waxing

Moon inLeo8° Leo

Sun inAries0° Aries

No planet is retrograde.

19 March 2024 Today 21 March 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
SunAries0°Direct
MoonLeo8°Direct
MercuryAries17°Direct
VenusPisces10°Direct
MarsAquarius28°Direct
JupiterTaurus14°Direct
SaturnPisces12°Direct
UranusTaurus20°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoAquarius1°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun sextile Pluto1.3°
  • Venus conjunction Saturn1.6°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn2.7°
  • Sun conjunction Neptune2.9°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.2°
  • Venus sextile Jupiter4.3°
  • Jupiter conjunction Uranus5.3°
  • Moon opposition Pluto6.6°

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.