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The sky on
24 July 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous87% lit, waning

Moon inPisces13° Pisces

Sun inLeo2° Leo

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
SunLeo2°Direct
MoonPisces13°Direct
MercuryLeo28°Direct
VenusLeo15°Direct
MarsGemini2°Direct
JupiterGemini13°Direct
SaturnPisces18°Retrograde
UranusTaurus26°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius0°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun sextile Mars0.4°
  • Moon square Jupiter0.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.0°
  • Sun opposition Pluto1.2°
  • Mars trine Pluto1.7°
  • Mercury square Uranus2.2°
  • Sun trine Neptune2.3°
  • Venus sextile Jupiter2.7°

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.