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The sky on
17 April 2028.

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

The MoonLast Quarter42% lit, waning

Moon inAquarius6° Aquarius

Sun inAries27° Aries

Jupiter 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
SunAries27°Direct
MoonAquarius6°Direct
MercuryTaurus4°Direct
VenusGemini10°Direct
MarsAries22°Direct
JupiterVirgo18°Retrograde
SaturnTaurus0°Direct
UranusGemini7°Direct
NeptuneAries7°Direct
PlutoAquarius8°Direct

The closest aspects

  • Moon sextile Neptune0.3°
  • Uranus sextile Neptune0.5°
  • Moon trine Uranus0.8°
  • Uranus trine Pluto1.1°
  • Neptune sextile Pluto1.6°
  • Moon conjunction Pluto1.9°
  • Venus trine Pluto2.0°
  • Sun conjunction Saturn2.6°

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.