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The sky on
23 October 2024.

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

The MoonLast Quarter59% lit, waning

Moon inCancer20° Cancer

Sun inScorpio0° Scorpio

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 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
SunScorpio0°Direct
MoonCancer20°Direct
MercuryScorpio15°Direct
VenusSagittarius6°Direct
MarsCancer25°Direct
JupiterGemini21°Retrograde
SaturnPisces13°Retrograde
UranusTaurus26°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mars sextile Uranus0.7°
  • Sun square Pluto0.9°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.5°
  • Mercury trine Saturn1.9°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.0°
  • Mars trine Neptune2.1°
  • Uranus trine Pluto3.5°
  • Mars opposition Pluto4.1°

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.