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The sky on
24 May 2024.

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

The MoonFull Moon99% lit, waning

Moon inSagittarius14° Sagittarius

Sun inGemini3° Gemini

Pluto is retrograde.

23 May 2024 Today 25 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
SunGemini3°Direct
MoonSagittarius14°Direct
MercuryTaurus12°Direct
VenusGemini0°Direct
MarsAries18°Direct
JupiterTaurus29°Direct
SaturnPisces18°Direct
UranusTaurus23°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius1°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Jupiter sextile Neptune0.1°
  • Venus conjunction Jupiter1.1°
  • Venus trine Pluto1.2°
  • Venus sextile Neptune1.3°
  • Sun trine Pluto1.8°
  • Jupiter trine Pluto2.3°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.5°
  • Sun conjunction Venus3.0°

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.