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The sky on
13 April 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent27% lit, waxing

Moon inGemini26° Gemini

Sun inAries24° Aries

Mercury is retrograde.

12 April 2024 Today 14 April 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
SunAries24°Direct
MoonGemini26°Direct
MercuryAries21°Retrograde
VenusAries10°Direct
MarsPisces16°Direct
JupiterTaurus20°Direct
SaturnPisces14°Direct
UranusTaurus21°Direct
NeptunePisces28°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Jupiter conjunction Uranus1.3°
  • Moon square Neptune1.5°
  • Mars conjunction Saturn1.8°
  • Sun conjunction Mercury2.7°
  • Sun sextile Moon2.8°
  • Mars sextile Jupiter3.4°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.7°
  • Mars sextile Uranus4.7°

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.