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The sky on
17 January 2028.

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

The MoonLast Quarter64% lit, waning

Moon inLibra10° Libra

Sun inCapricorn26° Capricorn

Jupiter and Uranus are retrograde.

16 January 2028 Today 18 January 2028

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
SunCapricorn26°Direct
MoonLibra10°Direct
MercuryAquarius15°Direct
VenusPisces5°Direct
MarsAquarius10°Direct
JupiterVirgo27°Retrograde
SaturnAries21°Direct
UranusGemini6°Retrograde
NeptuneAries4°Direct
PlutoAquarius6°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Uranus trine Pluto0.2°
  • Sun trine Jupiter0.6°
  • Moon trine Mars0.8°
  • Venus square Uranus1.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune2.1°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.3°
  • Moon trine Pluto3.7°
  • Moon trine Uranus3.9°

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.