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The sky on
8 April 2028.

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

The MoonFull Moon99% lit, waxing

Moon inLibra6° Libra

Sun inAries19° Aries

Jupiter is retrograde.

7 April 2028 Today 9 April 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
SunAries19°Direct
MoonLibra6°Direct
MercuryAries15°Direct
VenusGemini3°Direct
MarsAries15°Direct
JupiterVirgo19°Retrograde
SaturnAries29°Direct
UranusGemini7°Direct
NeptuneAries6°Direct
PlutoAquarius8°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Mercury conjunction Mars0.2°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune0.4°
  • Moon opposition Neptune0.6°
  • Moon trine Uranus1.0°
  • Uranus trine Pluto1.4°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.8°
  • Moon trine Venus2.2°
  • Moon trine Pluto2.4°

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.