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The sky on
23 May 2026.

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

The MoonFirst Quarter50% lit, waxing

Moon inVirgo2° Virgo

Sun inGemini2° Gemini

Pluto is retrograde.

22 May 2026 Today 24 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
SunGemini2°Direct
MoonVirgo2°Direct
MercuryGemini12°Direct
VenusCancer5°Direct
MarsTaurus3°Direct
JupiterCancer22°Direct
SaturnAries11°Direct
UranusGemini1°Direct
NeptuneAries3°Direct
PlutoAquarius5°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Sun square Moon0.4°
  • Moon trine Mars0.6°
  • Sun conjunction Uranus0.8°
  • Moon square Uranus1.2°
  • Venus square Neptune1.4°
  • Sun sextile Neptune1.5°
  • Mercury sextile Saturn1.5°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.6°

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.