The sky on 4 January 2014
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 a waxing crescent, growing in the evening sky.
Sun is at 14°03′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 20° Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 38 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 26°57′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 2°54′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 30 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 17°46′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 23°43′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 25°17′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 1°14′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 61 line 5 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Venus retrograde is read as a review of what is valued and who. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 13°10′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 19°07′ Virgo in the sidereal, gate 48 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 15°39′ Cancer in the tropical zodiac, 21°35′ Gemini in the sidereal, gate 53 line 1 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Jupiter retrograde is read as growth consolidating rather than spreading. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 20°40′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 26°37′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 43 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 8°44′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 14°40′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 17 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.
Neptune is at 3°19′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 9°16′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 55 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 11°23′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 17°20′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 38 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 4°58′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 10°55′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 28 line 4 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 38, the fighter, line 5, the Heretic line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 30, the recognition of feelings, line 3, the Martyr line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 38 and gate 30.
The Moon's line changes, 4 January 2014, UTC
| 00:28 | 49.2 | principles |
| 02:00 | 49.3 | principles |
| 03:30 | 49.4 | principles |
| 05:00 | 49.5 | principles |
| 06:32 | 49.6 | principles |
| 08:02 | 30.1 | the recognition of feelings |
| 09:34 | 30.2 | the recognition of feelings |
| 11:04 | 30.3 | the recognition of feelings |
| 12:36 | 30.4 | the recognition of feelings |
| 14:08 | 30.5 | the recognition of feelings |
| 15:40 | 30.6 | the recognition of feelings |
| 17:12 | 55.1 | spirit |
| 18:44 | 55.2 | spirit |
| 20:16 | 55.3 | spirit |
| 21:48 | 55.4 | spirit |
| 23:22 | 55.5 | spirit |
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
Sun square Mars, 0.9° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Sun opposition Jupiter, 1.6° from exact and closing: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Neptune trine Rahu, 1.6° from exact and closing: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Mars square Pluto, 1.8° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
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.
Why the two zodiacs disagree about everything above
Every body sits about 24 degrees earlier in the sidereal zodiac than in the tropical one.
Western astrology anchors its zodiac to the seasons and Vedic astrology to the stars, and the two have drifted 24.05 degrees apart. That is why a Western page and a Vedic one can name different signs for the same planet on the same day, and why neither is wrong. We show both, every time, and where a reading depends on which one was used we say so.
What turns in the next thirty days
07 Jan 2014: Venus enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
08 Jan 2014: Mercury enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
12 Jan 2014: Mercury enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
14 Jan 2014: Sun enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
16 Jan 2014: full Moon.
20 Jan 2014: Sun enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
27 Jan 2014: Mercury enters Aquarius in the sidereal zodiac.
31 Jan 2014: new Moon.
31 Jan 2014: Mercury enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.
01 Feb 2014: Venus turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
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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