The sky today,
worked out, not guessed.
Where the planets actually are, from the same ephemeris OrbHeaven runs on. No account, nothing stored, and the same for everybody — which is exactly the point, until you add your own chart underneath it.
Moon in Cancer
Tender and protective. Home and the people in it matter more than usual.
It moves into the next sign in 1 day 5 hours, at your time.
What is close today
The angles that are actually tight
Mercury grinds against Mars
0.4°Where talking, thinking and deciding meets effort and friction, they are asking for different things.
Loosening
Moon grinds against Saturn
3.5°Where how everyone is feeling meets limits and what has to be earned, they are asking for different things.
Loosening
Sun sits awkwardly beside Saturn
1.8°Where what you are trying to be meets limits and what has to be earned, they do not quite line up.
Tightening
Moving backwards
Retrograde right now
- ☿︎
Mercury · retrograde on · direct on
Plans, messages and travel get slippery. Re-read before you send; revisit before you sign.
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Venus · retrograde on · direct on
Old wants and old relationships come back for review. A poor time to start something for its own sake.
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Saturn · retrograde on · direct on
The structures you have built get re-examined before they are asked to hold.
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Uranus · retrograde on · direct on
The push to break out turns inward: the restlessness is there before the change is.
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Neptune · retrograde on · direct on
What was idealised gets seen a little more plainly.
Coming up
The next two Moons
- New Moon
in Scorpio
A quiet start. A good day to set one intention, not ten.
- Full Moon
in Gemini
Things come to light or come to a head. Notice what is finished.
Where everything is
The whole sky, right now
- ☉︎Sun7° Scorpio
- ☽︎Moon12° Cancer
- ☿︎Mercury17° Scorpio℞
- ♀︎Venus26° Libra℞
- ♂︎Mars18° Leo
- ♃︎Jupiter24° Leo
- ♄︎Saturn9° Aries℞
- ♅︎Uranus4° Gemini℞
- ♆︎Neptune2° Aries℞
- ♇︎Pluto3° Aquarius
Looking further ahead? See the whole year’s stations, sign changes and moons.
Now put your chart under it
A birth date is enough to start.
From a date alone we can estimate the positions of your Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and the slow planets, but an exact birth time gives more precise positions. We then read today’s sky against them, with dates for when each stretch builds, peaks and eases, shown as a range when the exact day depends on the time you were born. That is a real calculation against your chart, not a star sign.
Astrology is a reflective framework, not a scientifically established method of predicting events. Everything on this page is a description of where things are, never a claim about what will happen.
The sky is the easy part. You are the interesting part.
Vesper reads your whole chart against the sky as it moves, remembers what you said last time, and asks how it went on the day a stretch peaks. That is the product; this page is the doorstep.
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