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The sky on
8 May 2025.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous85% lit, waxing

Moon inLibra2° Libra

Sun inTaurus18° Taurus

Pluto is retrograde.

7 May 2025 Today 9 May 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
SunTaurus18°Direct
MoonLibra2°Direct
MercuryAries26°Direct
VenusAries4°Direct
MarsLeo9°Direct
JupiterGemini22°Direct
SaturnPisces28°Direct
UranusTaurus26°Direct
NeptuneAries1°Direct
PlutoAquarius3°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Moon opposition Neptune1.1°
  • Venus sextile Pluto1.1°
  • Moon trine Pluto1.4°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus1.8°
  • Moon opposition Venus2.5°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.5°
  • Saturn conjunction Neptune2.7°
  • Venus conjunction Neptune3.6°

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.