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The sky on
25 April 2024.

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

The MoonFull Moon98% lit, waning

Moon inScorpio22° Scorpio

Sun inTaurus5° Taurus

Mercury 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
SunTaurus5°Direct
MoonScorpio22°Direct
MercuryAries15°Retrograde
VenusAries25°Direct
MarsPisces26°Direct
JupiterTaurus22°Direct
SaturnPisces16°Direct
UranusTaurus22°Direct
NeptunePisces28°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon opposition Jupiter0.0°
  • Moon opposition Uranus0.8°
  • Jupiter conjunction Uranus0.8°
  • Mars conjunction Neptune2.7°
  • Moon trine Mars3.1°
  • Mars sextile Jupiter3.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.3°
  • Sun square Pluto3.7°

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.