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The sky on
4 July 2025.

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

The MoonFirst Quarter66% lit, waxing

Moon inScorpio1° Scorpio

Sun inCancer12° Cancer

Pluto 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
SunCancer12°Direct
MoonScorpio1°Direct
MercuryLeo8°Direct
VenusTaurus29°Direct
MarsVirgo9°Direct
JupiterCancer5°Direct
SaturnAries1°Direct
UranusTaurus29°Direct
NeptuneAries2°Direct
PlutoAquarius3°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus conjunction Uranus0.0°
  • Saturn conjunction Neptune0.3°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.9°
  • Saturn sextile Pluto1.2°
  • Moon square Pluto1.9°
  • Venus sextile Saturn2.0°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus2.0°
  • Venus sextile Neptune2.3°

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.