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The sky on
8 May 2024.

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

The MoonNew Moon0% lit, waxing

Moon inTaurus23° Taurus

Sun inTaurus18° Taurus

Pluto is retrograde.

7 May 2024 Today 9 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
SunTaurus18°Direct
MoonTaurus23°Direct
MercuryAries22°Direct
VenusTaurus11°Direct
MarsAries6°Direct
JupiterTaurus25°Direct
SaturnPisces17°Direct
UranusTaurus22°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Moon conjunction Uranus0.4°
  • Sun sextile Saturn1.1°
  • Moon conjunction Jupiter2.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.0°
  • Jupiter conjunction Uranus3.1°
  • Jupiter sextile Neptune3.3°
  • Mars sextile Pluto3.9°
  • Sun conjunction Uranus4.4°

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.