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The sky on
18 May 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous77% lit, waxing

Moon inLibra0° Libra

Sun inTaurus28° Taurus

Pluto is retrograde.

17 May 2024 Today 19 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
SunTaurus28°Direct
MoonLibra0°Direct
MercuryTaurus3°Direct
VenusTaurus23°Direct
MarsAries13°Direct
JupiterTaurus28°Direct
SaturnPisces17°Direct
UranusTaurus23°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus conjunction Uranus0.0°
  • Sun conjunction Jupiter0.2°
  • Moon trine Pluto1.2°
  • Jupiter sextile Neptune1.2°
  • Sun sextile Neptune1.4°
  • Moon opposition Neptune1.4°
  • Mercury square Pluto1.6°
  • Moon trine Jupiter2.6°

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.