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The sky on
21 August 2025.

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

The MoonNew Moon3% lit, waning

Moon inLeo7° Leo

Sun inLeo28° Leo

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
SunLeo28°Direct
MoonLeo7°Direct
MercuryLeo10°Direct
VenusCancer25°Direct
MarsLibra9°Direct
JupiterCancer15°Direct
SaturnAries0°Retrograde
UranusGemini1°Direct
NeptuneAries1°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius1°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Uranus sextile Neptune0.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.4°
  • Uranus trine Pluto0.6°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus0.7°
  • Saturn conjunction Neptune0.9°
  • Mercury sextile Mars1.2°
  • Saturn sextile Pluto1.3°
  • Moon sextile Mars2.0°

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.