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The sky on
17 December 2025.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent6% lit, waning

Moon inScorpio27° Scorpio

Sun inSagittarius25° Sagittarius

Jupiter and Uranus 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
SunSagittarius25°Direct
MoonScorpio27°Direct
MercurySagittarius7°Direct
VenusSagittarius20°Direct
MarsCapricorn1°Direct
JupiterCancer23°Retrograde
SaturnPisces25°Direct
UranusTaurus28°Retrograde
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius2°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Sun square Saturn0.3°
  • Moon opposition Uranus0.7°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.0°
  • Moon trine Neptune1.7°
  • Moon trine Saturn2.2°
  • Mars square Neptune2.3°
  • Jupiter trine Saturn2.4°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus2.9°

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.