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The sky on
6 July 2024.

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

The MoonNew Moon0% lit, waxing

Moon inCancer21° Cancer

Sun inCancer14° Cancer

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

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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
SunCancer14°Direct
MoonCancer21°Direct
MercuryLeo6°Direct
VenusCancer23°Direct
MarsTaurus19°Direct
JupiterGemini9°Direct
SaturnPisces19°Retrograde
UranusTaurus25°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius1°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mars sextile Saturn0.5°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.3°
  • Moon sextile Mars1.6°
  • Moon trine Saturn2.1°
  • Moon conjunction Venus2.2°
  • Venus sextile Uranus2.3°
  • Mercury sextile Jupiter2.8°
  • Venus sextile Mars3.7°

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.