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The sky on
16 January 2026.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent5% lit, waning

Moon inCapricorn0° Capricorn

Sun inCapricorn26° Capricorn

Jupiter and Uranus are retrograde.

15 January 2026 Today 17 January 2026

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
SunCapricorn26°Direct
MoonCapricorn0°Direct
MercuryCapricorn23°Direct
VenusCapricorn28°Direct
MarsCapricorn24°Direct
JupiterCancer19°Retrograde
SaturnPisces27°Direct
UranusTaurus27°Retrograde
NeptunePisces29°Direct
PlutoAquarius3°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon square Neptune0.4°
  • Saturn sextile Uranus0.4°
  • Sun sextile Saturn0.9°
  • Venus trine Uranus1.1°
  • Venus sextile Neptune1.1°
  • Sun trine Uranus1.2°
  • Venus sextile Saturn1.4°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars1.6°

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.