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The sky on
8 August 2026.

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

The MoonWaning Crescent24% lit, waning

Moon inGemini17° Gemini

Sun inLeo15° Leo

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto 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
SunLeo15°Direct
MoonGemini17°Direct
MercuryCancer28°Direct
VenusLibra1°Direct
MarsGemini28°Direct
JupiterLeo8°Direct
SaturnAries14°Retrograde
UranusGemini5°Direct
NeptuneAries4°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius4°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.1°
  • Uranus trine Pluto1.2°
  • Sun trine Saturn1.4°
  • Sun sextile Moon2.0°
  • Venus trine Pluto2.3°
  • Venus opposition Neptune2.4°
  • Moon sextile Saturn3.3°

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.