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The sky on
29 October 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent8% lit, waning

Moon inLibra3° Libra

Sun inScorpio6° 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
SunScorpio6°Direct
MoonLibra3°Direct
MercuryScorpio23°Direct
VenusSagittarius14°Direct
MarsCancer27°Direct
JupiterGemini20°Retrograde
SaturnPisces12°Retrograde
UranusTaurus25°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mars trine Neptune0.4°
  • Venus square Saturn1.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.6°
  • Mars opposition Pluto1.8°
  • Mars sextile Uranus2.0°
  • Mercury opposition Uranus2.1°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.2°
  • Mercury trine Neptune3.7°

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.