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The sky on
22 September 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous74% lit, waning

Moon inGemini0° Gemini

Sun inVirgo29° 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
SunVirgo29°Direct
MoonGemini0°Direct
MercuryVirgo22°Direct
VenusLibra29°Direct
MarsCancer10°Direct
JupiterGemini20°Direct
SaturnPisces14°Retrograde
UranusTaurus27°Retrograde
NeptunePisces28°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun trine Pluto0.2°
  • Venus square Pluto0.5°
  • Sun trine Moon1.0°
  • Moon trine Pluto1.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.3°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.4°
  • Sun opposition Neptune1.5°
  • Mercury square Jupiter2.0°

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.