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The sky on
17 December 2027.

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

The MoonWaning Gibbous81% lit, waning

Moon inLeo17° Leo

Sun inSagittarius25° Sagittarius

Saturn and Uranus are retrograde.

16 December 2027 Today 18 December 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
SunSagittarius25°Direct
MoonLeo17°Direct
MercurySagittarius28°Direct
VenusCapricorn27°Direct
MarsCapricorn16°Direct
JupiterVirgo26°Direct
SaturnAries21°Retrograde
UranusGemini7°Retrograde
NeptuneAries3°Direct
PlutoAquarius5°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Venus trine Jupiter0.7°
  • Sun square Jupiter1.2°
  • Uranus trine Pluto1.7°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.7°
  • Mercury square Jupiter2.0°
  • Sun conjunction Mercury3.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune3.4°
  • Moon trine Saturn3.9°

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.