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The sky on
22 August 2026.

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

The MoonWaxing Gibbous72% lit, waxing

Moon inSagittarius25° Sagittarius

Sun inLeo29° 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
SunLeo29°Direct
MoonSagittarius25°Direct
MercuryLeo24°Direct
VenusLibra15°Direct
MarsCancer7°Direct
JupiterLeo11°Direct
SaturnAries14°Retrograde
UranusGemini5°Direct
NeptuneAries3°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius3°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.2°
  • Venus opposition Saturn0.9°
  • Moon trine Mercury1.5°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.7°
  • Uranus trine Pluto1.8°
  • Jupiter trine Saturn2.5°
  • Venus sextile Jupiter3.4°
  • Mars square Neptune3.4°

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.