The sky on 5 April 2012

Where everything is, in the tropical zodiac Western astrology uses and the sidereal zodiac Vedic astrology uses, with the Human Design gate each body sits in, and what turns in the next thirty days. This is weather, not a forecast: nothing here is about you, and nothing here says what will happen. To see where this sky stands on your own chart, the calculator is free.

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Where everything is

The Moon is full, rising as the Sun sets; the tradition reads it as the month's high water.

Sun is at 16°06′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 22°05′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 51 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.

Moon is at 27°49′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 3°47′ Virgo in the sidereal, gate 6 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.

Mercury is at 23°54′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 29°52′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 36 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.

Venus is at 1°42′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 7°41′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 20 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.

Mars is at 4°09′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 10°08′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 59 line 5 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Mars retrograde is read as effort turned inward, a season for finishing rather than starting fights. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.

Jupiter is at 14°19′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 20°17′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 2 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.

Saturn is at 26°58′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 2°56′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 50 line 1 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Saturn retrograde is read as structure being tested from the inside. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.

Uranus is at 5°11′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 11°09′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 17 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.

Neptune is at 2°13′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 8°11′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 55 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.

Pluto is at 9°34′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 15°32′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 38 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.

Rahu is at 6°14′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 12°12′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 9 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates the nodes with appetite and the unfamiliar; Ketu, opposite it, detachment and endings.

In Human Design

The Sun is in gate 51, shock, line 2, the Hermit line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 6, friction, line 6, the Role Model line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 51 and gate 6.

The Moon's line changes, 5 April 2012, UTC

Times in UTC. A line is a sixth of a gate, a little under a degree; the Moon crosses one every hour or two. Where the Sun's gate is the day's theme, the tradition reads the Moon's as the hour's, and neither is a forecast.

Tight aspects at noon

Venus square Neptune, 0.5° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.

Uranus trine Rahu, 1.1° from exact and closing: an ease between the two that can go unused.

Mars opposition Neptune, 1.9° from exact and closing: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.

Within two degrees of exact, one for the Moon. Closing means the aspect is still tightening; opening means it has passed. The slow pairs stay for weeks and the Moon's pass in hours.

What turns in the next thirty days

06 Apr 2012: Mercury enters Pisces in the sidereal zodiac.

07 Apr 2012: full Moon.

10 Apr 2012: Pluto turns retrograde. An outer planet is retrograde for months at a time; the tradition reads it as the theme turned inward.

13 Apr 2012: Sun enters Aries in the sidereal zodiac.

14 Apr 2012: Mars turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.

17 Apr 2012: Mercury enters Aries in the tropical zodiac.

19 Apr 2012: Sun enters Taurus in the tropical zodiac.

21 Apr 2012: new Moon.

A sign change or a station is a condition beginning or ending. The tradition reads the condition; it does not read an event into it, and neither does this page.

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