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The sky on
21 April 2025.

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

The MoonLast Quarter45% lit, waning

Moon inAquarius6° Aquarius

Sun inTaurus1° Taurus

No planet is 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
SunTaurus1°Direct
MoonAquarius6°Direct
MercuryAries4°Direct
VenusPisces25°Direct
MarsLeo1°Direct
JupiterGemini19°Direct
SaturnPisces26°Direct
UranusTaurus25°Direct
NeptuneAries0°Direct
PlutoAquarius3°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun square Mars0.2°
  • Venus sextile Uranus0.2°
  • Mercury sextile Pluto0.6°
  • Mars trine Neptune0.6°
  • Venus conjunction Saturn0.9°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus1.1°
  • Sun square Pluto2.1°
  • Mars opposition Pluto2.4°

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.