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The sky on
8 September 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent24% lit, waxing

Moon inScorpio15° Scorpio

Sun inVirgo16° Virgo

Saturn, Uranus, 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
SunVirgo16°Direct
MoonScorpio15°Direct
MercuryLeo28°Direct
VenusLibra12°Direct
MarsCancer2°Direct
JupiterGemini19°Direct
SaturnPisces16°Retrograde
UranusTaurus27°Retrograde
NeptunePisces28°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun opposition Saturn0.3°
  • Moon trine Saturn0.8°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.0°
  • Sun sextile Moon1.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.6°
  • Mercury square Uranus1.7°
  • Uranus trine Pluto2.7°
  • Mercury sextile Mars3.3°

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.