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The sky on
17 October 2025.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent15% lit, waning

Moon inVirgo9° Virgo

Sun inLibra24° Libra

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 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
SunLibra24°Direct
MoonVirgo9°Direct
MercuryScorpio15°Direct
VenusLibra4°Direct
MarsScorpio17°Direct
JupiterCancer24°Direct
SaturnPisces26°Retrograde
UranusGemini0°Retrograde
NeptuneAries0°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius1°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun square Jupiter0.2°
  • Uranus trine Pluto0.6°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune0.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.2°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars1.8°
  • Jupiter trine Saturn2.5°
  • Venus trine Pluto3.1°
  • Saturn conjunction Neptune3.5°

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.