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The sky on
18 August 2027.

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

The MoonFull Moon99% lit, waning

Moon inPisces8° Pisces

Sun inLeo25° Leo

Saturn, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde.

17 August 2027 Today 19 August 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
SunLeo25°Direct
MoonPisces8°Direct
MercuryVirgo2°Direct
VenusLeo27°Direct
MarsLibra20°Direct
JupiterVirgo4°Direct
SaturnAries27°Retrograde
UranusGemini9°Direct
NeptuneAries6°Retrograde
PlutoAquarius5°Retrograde

The closest aspects

  • Venus trine Saturn0.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.8°
  • Moon square Uranus1.3°
  • Sun conjunction Venus1.8°
  • Mercury conjunction Jupiter2.4°
  • Sun trine Saturn2.5°
  • Moon opposition Jupiter3.4°
  • Uranus sextile 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.