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The sky on
29 August 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent19% lit, waning

Moon inCancer14° Cancer

Sun inVirgo6° Virgo

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

28 August 2024 Today 30 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
SunVirgo6°Direct
MoonCancer14°Direct
MercuryLeo21°Direct
VenusVirgo29°Direct
MarsGemini26°Direct
JupiterGemini18°Direct
SaturnPisces16°Retrograde
UranusTaurus27°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius0°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus trine Pluto0.1°
  • Venus opposition Neptune0.8°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.9°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.9°
  • Jupiter square Saturn2.0°
  • Moon trine Saturn2.1°
  • Mercury sextile Jupiter2.7°
  • Venus trine Uranus2.7°

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.