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The sky on
1 May 2026.

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

The MoonFull Moon100% lit, waxing

Moon inScorpio8° Scorpio

Sun inTaurus11° Taurus

No planet is 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
SunTaurus11°Direct
MoonScorpio8°Direct
MercuryAries26°Direct
VenusGemini8°Direct
MarsAries16°Direct
JupiterCancer18°Direct
SaturnAries9°Direct
UranusGemini0°Direct
NeptuneAries3°Direct
PlutoAquarius5°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Venus sextile Saturn0.3°
  • Mars square Jupiter2.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.2°
  • Sun opposition Moon2.5°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.0°
  • Moon square Pluto3.1°
  • Venus trine Pluto3.4°
  • Saturn sextile Pluto3.7°

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.