The sky on 18 May 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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Where everything is
The Moon is new, invisible beside the Sun; the tradition reads it as the quiet start of a lunar month.
Sun is at 27°14′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 3°10′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 8 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 1°29′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 7°25′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 20 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 13°08′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 19°04′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 35 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 11°28′ Cancer in the tropical zodiac, 17°23′ Gemini in the sidereal, gate 39 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 4°30′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 10°26′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 20 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 14°55′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 20°51′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 7 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 1°59′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 7°55′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 34 line 2 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 18°43′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 24°38′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 51 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.
Neptune is at 9°39′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 15°35′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 37 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 15°19′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 21°14′ 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°02′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 14°58′ Virgo in the sidereal, gate 18 line 6 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 8, contribution, line 3, the Martyr line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 20, the now, line 2, the Hermit line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 8 and gate 20.
The Moon's line changes, 18 May 2015, UTC
| 00:06 | 8.1 | contribution |
| 01:42 | 8.2 | contribution |
| 03:18 | 8.3 | contribution |
| 04:54 | 8.4 | contribution |
| 06:30 | 8.5 | contribution |
| 08:04 | 8.6 | contribution |
| 09:40 | 20.1 | the now |
| 11:16 | 20.2 | the now |
| 12:54 | 20.3 | the now |
| 14:30 | 20.4 | the now |
| 16:06 | 20.5 | the now |
| 17:42 | 20.6 | the now |
| 19:20 | 16.1 | skills |
| 20:56 | 16.2 | skills |
| 22:34 | 16.3 | skills |
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
Moon opposition Saturn, 0.5° from exact and closing: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Mercury sextile Jupiter, 1.8° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Venus trine Neptune, 1.8° from exact and opening: an ease between the two that can go unused.
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
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.
30 May 2015: Venus enters Cancer in the sidereal zodiac.
02 Jun 2015: full Moon.
05 Jun 2015: Venus enters Leo in the tropical zodiac.
12 Jun 2015: Mercury turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
12 Jun 2015: Neptune turns retrograde. An outer planet is retrograde for months at a time; the tradition reads it as the theme turned inward.
15 Jun 2015: Saturn enters Scorpio in the tropical zodiac.
15 Jun 2015: Sun enters Gemini in the sidereal zodiac.
16 Jun 2015: Mars enters Gemini in the sidereal zodiac.
16 Jun 2015: 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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