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The sky on
21 October 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous79% lit, waning

Moon inGemini23° Gemini

Sun inLibra28° Libra

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde.

20 October 2024 Today 22 October 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
SunLibra28°Direct
MoonGemini23°Direct
MercuryScorpio12°Direct
VenusSagittarius4°Direct
MarsCancer24°Direct
JupiterGemini21°Retrograde
SaturnPisces13°Retrograde
UranusTaurus26°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun square Pluto1.1°
  • Mercury trine Saturn1.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.4°
  • Mars sextile Uranus1.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.9°
  • Moon conjunction Jupiter2.7°
  • Mars trine Neptune3.0°
  • Uranus trine Pluto3.4°

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.