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The sky on
6 October 2024.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent12% lit, waxing

Moon inScorpio24° Scorpio

Sun inLibra13° Libra

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
SunLibra13°Direct
MoonScorpio24°Direct
MercuryLibra17°Direct
VenusScorpio16°Direct
MarsCancer17°Direct
JupiterGemini21°Direct
SaturnPisces14°Retrograde
UranusTaurus26°Retrograde
NeptunePisces28°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Mercury square Mars0.3°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.3°
  • Venus trine Mars1.4°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.6°
  • Venus trine Saturn2.3°
  • Moon opposition Uranus2.6°
  • Uranus trine Pluto2.9°
  • Mercury trine Jupiter3.4°

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.