MyDezign · Library · The sky today · 29 April 2015
Read at noon UTC · both zodiacs

The sky on 29 April 2015

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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Sun, tropicalTaurus
Sun, siderealAries
Sun's gate24.2, rationalisation
Moon's gate47.1 in Virgo
Moonwaxing gibbous, 81% lit
RetrogradeSaturn, Pluto

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Where everything is

The Moon is waxing gibbous, nearly full.

Sun is at 8°52′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 14°47′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 24 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.

Moon is at 17°10′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 23°05′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 47 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.

Mercury is at 27°40′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 3°35′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 8 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.

Venus is at 20°33′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 26°29′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 45 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.

Mars is at 21°01′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 26°57′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 23 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.

Jupiter is at 13°15′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 19°11′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 7 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.

Saturn is at 3°19′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 9°14′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 34 line 4 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 17°44′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 23°40′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 51 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.

Neptune is at 9°18′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 15°14′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 37 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.

Pluto is at 15°31′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 21°26′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 line 1 in Human Design, and retrograde; an outer planet is retrograde for months at a time; the tradition reads it as the theme turned inward. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.

Rahu is at 9°47′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 15°43′ Virgo in the sidereal, gate 48 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 24, rationalisation, line 2, the Hermit line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 47, realisation, line 1, the Investigator line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 24 and gate 47.

The Moon's line changes, 29 April 2015, UTC

00:1664.1confusion
02:1064.2confusion
04:0464.3confusion
05:5864.4confusion
07:5264.5confusion
09:4864.6confusion
11:4247.1realisation
13:3647.2realisation
15:3047.3realisation
17:2447.4realisation
19:2047.5realisation
21:1447.6realisation
23:086.1friction

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 sextile Neptune, 0.4° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.

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 24.07 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

01 May 2015: Mercury enters Gemini in the tropical zodiac.

02 May 2015: Venus enters Gemini in the sidereal zodiac.

04 May 2015: Mars enters Taurus in the sidereal zodiac.

04 May 2015: full Moon.

08 May 2015: Venus enters Cancer in the tropical zodiac.

12 May 2015: Mars enters Gemini in the tropical zodiac.

15 May 2015: Sun enters Taurus in the sidereal zodiac.

18 May 2015: new Moon.

19 May 2015: Mercury turns retrograde. A Mercury retrograde is read as a fortnight or so of things going back for a second look: messages, plans, paperwork.

21 May 2015: Sun enters Gemini in the tropical zodiac.

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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