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The sky on
31 January 2025.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent5% lit, waxing

Moon inPisces7° Pisces

Sun inAquarius11° Aquarius

Mars and Jupiter are retrograde.

30 January 2025 Today 1 February 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
SunAquarius11°Direct
MoonPisces7°Direct
MercuryAquarius5°Direct
VenusPisces27°Direct
MarsCancer20°Retrograde
JupiterGemini11°Retrograde
SaturnPisces17°Direct
UranusTaurus23°Direct
NeptunePisces27°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun trine Jupiter0.6°
  • Venus conjunction Neptune0.9°
  • Mars sextile Uranus2.6°
  • Mars trine Saturn3.2°
  • Moon square Jupiter3.5°
  • Mercury conjunction Pluto3.5°
  • Venus sextile Uranus3.8°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto4.1°

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.