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The sky on
30 April 2024.

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

The MoonLast Quarter61% lit, waning

Moon inCapricorn28° Capricorn

Sun inTaurus10° Taurus

No planet is retrograde.

29 April 2024 Today 1 May 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
SunTaurus10°Direct
MoonCapricorn28°Direct
MercuryAries16°Direct
VenusTaurus1°Direct
MarsPisces29°Direct
JupiterTaurus24°Direct
SaturnPisces16°Direct
UranusTaurus22°Direct
NeptunePisces28°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon sextile Neptune0.8°
  • Venus square Pluto0.8°
  • Mars conjunction Neptune1.0°
  • Jupiter conjunction Uranus1.6°
  • Moon sextile Mars1.8°
  • Mars sextile Pluto2.2°
  • Moon square Venus3.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.2°

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.