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The sky on
16 September 2025.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent28% lit, waning

Moon inCancer20° Cancer

Sun inVirgo23° Virgo

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

15 September 2025 Today 17 September 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
SunVirgo23°Direct
MoonCancer20°Direct
MercuryVirgo26°Direct
VenusLeo26°Direct
MarsLibra26°Direct
JupiterCancer20°Direct
SaturnPisces28°Retrograde
UranusGemini1°Retrograde
NeptuneAries0°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius1°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Uranus trine Pluto0.1°
  • Moon conjunction Jupiter0.2°
  • Venus sextile Mars0.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune0.5°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.6°
  • Saturn conjunction Neptune2.1°
  • Mercury opposition Saturn2.3°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus2.5°

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.