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The sky on
17 July 2027.

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

The MoonFull Moon99% lit, waxing

Moon inCapricorn12° Capricorn

Sun inCancer24° Cancer

Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

16 July 2027 Today 18 July 2027

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
SunCancer24°Direct
MoonCapricorn12°Direct
MercuryCancer4°Direct
VenusCancer17°Direct
MarsLibra1°Direct
JupiterLeo28°Direct
SaturnAries27°Direct
UranusGemini8°Direct
NeptuneAries6°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius6°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.4°
  • Jupiter trine Saturn0.8°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.9°
  • Uranus trine Pluto2.3°
  • Mercury square Neptune2.4°
  • Sun square Saturn2.7°
  • Mercury square Mars2.9°
  • Mars trine Pluto4.9°

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.