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The sky on
31 August 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent6% lit, waning

Moon inLeo9° Leo

Sun inVirgo8° Virgo

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

30 August 2024 Today 1 September 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
SunVirgo8°Direct
MoonLeo9°Direct
MercuryLeo21°Direct
VenusLibra2°Direct
MarsGemini27°Direct
JupiterGemini18°Direct
SaturnPisces16°Retrograde
UranusTaurus27°Direct
NeptunePisces29°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius0°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.0°
  • Mars square Neptune1.7°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.8°
  • Venus trine Pluto2.4°
  • Jupiter square Saturn2.4°
  • Uranus trine Pluto2.8°
  • Mercury sextile Jupiter2.9°
  • Venus opposition Neptune3.3°

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.