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The sky on
19 November 2024.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous83% lit, waning

Moon inCancer15° Cancer

Sun inScorpio27° Scorpio

Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde.

18 November 2024 Today 20 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
SunScorpio27°Direct
MoonCancer15°Direct
MercurySagittarius19°Direct
VenusCapricorn9°Direct
MarsLeo4°Direct
JupiterGemini18°Retrograde
SaturnPisces12°Direct
UranusTaurus25°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Retrograde
PlutoCapricorn29°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun trine Neptune0.4°
  • Mercury opposition Jupiter1.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.1°
  • Sun sextile Pluto2.3°
  • Sun opposition Uranus2.5°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.8°
  • Moon trine Saturn3.0°
  • Venus sextile Saturn3.5°

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.