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The sky on
16 August 2026.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent17% lit, waxing

Moon inLibra11° Libra

Sun inLeo23° Leo

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

15 August 2026 Today 17 August 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
SunLeo23°Direct
MoonLibra11°Direct
MercuryLeo12°Direct
VenusLibra9°Direct
MarsCancer3°Direct
JupiterLeo10°Direct
SaturnAries14°Retrograde
UranusGemini5°Direct
NeptuneAries4°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius3°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Moon sextile Mercury0.2°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.2°
  • Mars square Neptune0.6°
  • Venus sextile Jupiter0.8°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.4°
  • Moon sextile Jupiter1.6°
  • Uranus trine Pluto1.6°
  • Mercury conjunction Jupiter1.8°

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.