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The sky on
4 January 2028.

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

The MoonFirst Quarter44% lit, waxing

Moon inAries7° Aries

Sun inCapricorn13° Capricorn

Uranus is 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
SunCapricorn13°Direct
MoonAries7°Direct
MercuryCapricorn27°Direct
VenusAquarius19°Direct
MarsAquarius0°Direct
JupiterVirgo27°Direct
SaturnAries21°Direct
UranusGemini6°Retrograde
NeptuneAries3°Direct
PlutoAquarius6°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mercury trine Jupiter0.2°
  • Uranus trine Pluto0.5°
  • Moon sextile Uranus0.7°
  • Moon sextile Pluto1.2°
  • Venus sextile Saturn1.8°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.1°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.6°
  • Mars trine Jupiter3.2°

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.