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The sky on
17 June 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous79% lit, waxing

Moon inScorpio2° Scorpio

Sun inGemini26° Gemini

Pluto is retrograde.

16 June 2024 Today 18 June 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
SunGemini26°Direct
MoonScorpio2°Direct
MercuryCancer0°Direct
VenusCancer0°Direct
MarsTaurus6°Direct
JupiterGemini5°Direct
SaturnPisces19°Direct
UranusTaurus25°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius1°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury conjunction Venus0.0°
  • Mercury square Neptune0.4°
  • Venus square Neptune0.4°
  • Moon square Pluto1.1°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.8°
  • Moon trine Venus2.4°
  • Moon trine Mercury2.5°
  • Sun square Neptune3.1°

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.