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The sky on
29 July 2025.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent22% lit, waxing

Moon inLibra3° Libra

Sun inLeo6° Leo

Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are 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
SunLeo6°Direct
MoonLibra3°Direct
MercuryLeo10°Retrograde
VenusGemini28°Direct
MarsVirgo24°Direct
JupiterCancer11°Direct
SaturnAries1°Retrograde
UranusGemini0°Direct
NeptuneAries2°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius2°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Saturn conjunction Neptune0.3°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.5°
  • Moon trine Pluto0.7°
  • Saturn sextile Pluto0.8°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus0.9°
  • Moon opposition Neptune1.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.2°
  • Moon opposition Saturn1.5°

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.