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The sky on
18 May 2026.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent4% lit, waxing

Moon inGemini21° Gemini

Sun inTaurus27° Taurus

Pluto is retrograde.

17 May 2026 Today 19 May 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
SunTaurus27°Direct
MoonGemini21°Direct
MercuryGemini2°Direct
VenusGemini29°Direct
MarsAries29°Direct
JupiterCancer21°Direct
SaturnAries11°Direct
UranusGemini1°Direct
NeptuneAries3°Direct
PlutoAquarius5°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus sextile Mars0.3°
  • Mercury conjunction Uranus1.0°
  • Mercury sextile Neptune1.4°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.7°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.5°
  • Mercury trine Pluto3.2°
  • Sun conjunction Uranus3.7°
  • Uranus trine Pluto4.2°

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.