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The sky on
30 January 2028.

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

The MoonWaxing Crescent13% lit, waxing

Moon inPisces21° Pisces

Sun inAquarius10° Aquarius

Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus are retrograde.

29 January 2028 Today 31 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
SunAquarius10°Direct
MoonPisces21°Direct
MercuryAquarius16°Retrograde
VenusPisces20°Direct
MarsAquarius21°Direct
JupiterVirgo26°Retrograde
SaturnAries22°Direct
UranusGemini6°Retrograde
NeptuneAries4°Direct
PlutoAquarius6°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Uranus trine Pluto0.9°
  • Mars sextile Saturn1.1°
  • Moon conjunction Venus1.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune1.6°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto2.4°
  • Sun conjunction Pluto3.2°
  • Sun trine Uranus4.1°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars4.8°

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.