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The sky on
17 November 2024.

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

The MoonFull Moon96% lit, waning

Moon inGemini17° Gemini

Sun inScorpio25° Scorpio

Jupiter, 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
SunScorpio25°Direct
MoonGemini17°Direct
MercurySagittarius17°Direct
VenusCapricorn6°Direct
MarsLeo3°Direct
JupiterGemini18°Retrograde
SaturnPisces12°Direct
UranusTaurus25°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun opposition Uranus0.4°
  • Moon opposition Mercury0.4°
  • Mercury opposition Jupiter0.9°
  • Moon conjunction Jupiter1.3°
  • Sun trine Neptune1.6°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.0°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.7°
  • Mars opposition Pluto3.9°

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.