The common sky
This page is not about your chart. It is about the sky all of us share: where each body is, what phase the Moon is in and what changes next. It asks for no birth date, no time and no place.
The Moon today
What phase is it in, and how much of it do we see lit?
Waxing gibbous
We see 92% of its disc lit. It is waxing toward the full moon.
The lunar phase is not personal data: it is the angle between the Sun and the Moon seen from the Earth, and at any given hour it is identical for the whole planet. That is why it opens this page.
The phase is an approximate reading, good for knowing which phase we are in and not for pinning an exact instant. The exact instants are further down, among the changes that follow.
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Where each body is
What does it mean that a planet is in a sign?
The zodiac band is split into twelve sectors of thirty degrees, which are the signs. Saying that Mars is at twelve degrees of Leo says at which point of that band it is seen, measured in degrees of ecliptic longitude.
- Sun
at 0° 29′ of Libra
- Moon
at 21° 54′ of Aquarius
- Mercury
at 20° 12′ of Libra
- Venus
at 6° 44′ of Scorpio
- Mars
at 27° 15′ of Cancer
- Jupiter
at 18° 12′ of Leo
- Saturn
at 12° 09′ of Aries (retrograde)
- Uranus
at 5° 37′ of Gemini (retrograde)
- Neptune
at 3° 04′ of Aries (retrograde)
- Pluto
at 3° 11′ of Aquarius (retrograde)
- North Node
at 28° 06′ of Aquarius (retrograde)
- Lilith
at 0° 58′ of Capricorn
- Chiron
at 29° 47′ of Aries (retrograde)
These positions come from a snapshot computed once a day. It is never served more than one day old: past that margin this section says so, instead of showing an old sky.
A retrograde planet neither stops nor truly goes backwards. We see it move backwards against the stars because the Earth overtakes it in its orbit, the way a car you overtake seems to slide backwards.
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What changes next
What counts as a change in the sky?
Three things: a body entering a new sign, a planet starting retrograde motion or returning to direct motion, and the Moon aligning with the Sun at new or full moon. Each happens at one instant, and that instant is given here in UTC.
This list knows the sky from 2026-09-23 to 2026-10-23 in UTC. Outside that window it claims nothing, neither that there are changes nor that there are none.
The window on display was computed for 2026-09-23, and today is 2026-09-24 in UTC. The instants are still right; what reaches less far ahead is the list itself.
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Moon enters Aries
2026-09-26, at 10:23 UTC
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Full moon in Aries
2026-09-26, at 16:49 UTC
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Mars enters Leo
2026-09-28, at 02:49 UTC
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Moon enters Taurus
2026-09-28, at 14:40 UTC
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Mercury enters Scorpio
2026-09-30, at 11:44 UTC
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Moon enters Gemini
2026-09-30, at 17:26 UTC
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Moon enters Cancer
2026-10-02, at 19:54 UTC
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Venus starts retrograde motion in Scorpio
2026-10-03, around 07:00 UTC
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Moon enters Leo
2026-10-04, at 22:54 UTC
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Moon enters Virgo
2026-10-07, at 02:53 UTC
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Moon enters Libra
2026-10-09, at 08:11 UTC
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New moon in Libra
2026-10-10, at 15:50 UTC
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Moon enters Scorpio
2026-10-11, at 15:21 UTC
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Moon enters Sagittarius
2026-10-14, at 00:59 UTC
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Pluto returns to direct motion in Aquarius
2026-10-16, around 03:00 UTC
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Moon enters Capricorn
2026-10-16, at 12:57 UTC
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Moon enters Aquarius
2026-10-19, at 01:40 UTC
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Moon enters Pisces
2026-10-21, at 12:35 UTC
Ingresses and lunations are published to the minute. Stations are published to the hour, because the instant a planet stops is far harder to pin down than the instant it crosses a boundary.
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Where to go from here
The sky on this page is the same one for everybody, and it asks for nothing in return. The two paths out of here do ask for something, and for different things: a natal chart needs a date, a time and a place of birth; the catalog needs no data at all, only reading time.
List computed for 2026-09-24 04:28 in UTC.