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The sky on
23 March 2024.

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

The MoonFull Moon97% lit, waxing

Moon inVirgo13° Virgo

Sun inAries3° Aries

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
SunAries3°Direct
MoonVirgo13°Direct
MercuryAries21°Direct
VenusPisces14°Direct
MarsPisces0°Direct
JupiterTaurus15°Direct
SaturnPisces12°Direct
UranusTaurus20°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoAquarius1°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon opposition Venus0.4°
  • Venus sextile Jupiter1.2°
  • Moon opposition Saturn1.3°
  • Sun sextile Pluto1.6°
  • Moon trine Jupiter1.6°
  • Venus conjunction Saturn1.7°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn2.9°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.1°

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.