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The sky on
2 August 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent4% lit, waning

Moon inCancer17° Cancer

Sun inLeo10° Leo

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

1 August 2024 Today 3 August 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
SunLeo10°Direct
MoonCancer17°Direct
MercuryVirgo3°Direct
VenusLeo26°Direct
MarsGemini8°Direct
JupiterGemini14°Direct
SaturnPisces18°Retrograde
UranusTaurus26°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius0°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus square Uranus0.1°
  • Moon trine Saturn0.8°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.9°
  • Sun sextile Mars2.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.8°
  • Jupiter square Saturn3.8°
  • Uranus trine Pluto3.8°
  • Sun sextile Jupiter4.0°

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.