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The sky on
31 December 2024.

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

The MoonNew Moon0% lit, waxing

Moon inCapricorn17° Capricorn

Sun inCapricorn10° Capricorn

Mars, Jupiter and Uranus are retrograde.

30 December 2024 Today 1 January 2025

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
SunCapricorn10°Direct
MoonCapricorn17°Direct
MercurySagittarius19°Direct
VenusAquarius27°Direct
MarsLeo2°Retrograde
JupiterGemini13°Retrograde
SaturnPisces14°Direct
UranusTaurus23°Retrograde
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoAquarius1°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mars opposition Pluto1.0°
  • Jupiter square Saturn1.2°
  • Moon sextile Saturn2.7°
  • Venus square Uranus3.5°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto3.8°
  • Sun sextile Saturn4.2°
  • Mercury square Saturn4.7°

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.