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The sky on
18 November 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous91% lit, waning

Moon inCancer1° Cancer

Sun inScorpio26° Scorpio

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde.

17 November 2024 Today 19 November 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
SunScorpio26°Direct
MoonCancer1°Direct
MercurySagittarius18°Direct
VenusCapricorn8°Direct
MarsLeo4°Direct
JupiterGemini18°Retrograde
SaturnPisces12°Direct
UranusTaurus25°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mercury opposition Jupiter0.1°
  • Sun trine Neptune0.6°
  • Sun opposition Uranus1.5°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.1°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.7°
  • Sun sextile Pluto3.3°
  • Mars opposition Pluto4.1°
  • Moon square Neptune4.6°

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.