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The sky on
21 September 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous84% lit, waning

Moon inTaurus16° Taurus

Sun inVirgo28° 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
SunVirgo28°Direct
MoonTaurus16°Direct
MercuryVirgo21°Direct
VenusLibra28°Direct
MarsCancer9°Direct
JupiterGemini20°Direct
SaturnPisces15°Retrograde
UranusTaurus27°Retrograde
NeptunePisces28°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury square Jupiter0.2°
  • Sun opposition Neptune0.5°
  • Sun trine Pluto0.8°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.4°
  • Moon sextile Saturn1.6°
  • Venus square Pluto1.7°
  • Sun trine Uranus1.9°

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.