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The sky on
17 May 2025.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous79% lit, waning

Moon inCapricorn20° Capricorn

Sun inTaurus26° Taurus

Pluto is retrograde.

16 May 2025 Today 18 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
SunTaurus26°Direct
MoonCapricorn20°Direct
MercuryTaurus12°Direct
VenusAries11°Direct
MarsLeo13°Direct
JupiterGemini24°Direct
SaturnPisces29°Direct
UranusTaurus27°Direct
NeptuneAries1°Direct
PlutoAquarius3°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun conjunction Uranus0.4°
  • Mercury square Mars1.0°
  • Venus trine Mars1.7°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus2.1°
  • Saturn conjunction Neptune2.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.2°
  • Sun sextile Saturn2.6°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune4.3°

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.