The sky on 11 January 2016
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 20°41′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 26°37′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 9°02′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 14°57′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 19 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 27°39′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 3°34′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 2 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Mercury retrograde is read as a fortnight or so of things going back for a second look: messages, plans, paperwork. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 14°51′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 20°46′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 5 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 4°19′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 10°14′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 28 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 23°13′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 29°08′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 6 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 12°15′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 18°10′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 5 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 16°40′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 22°35′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 51 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.
Neptune is at 7°49′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 13°44′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 37 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 15°25′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 21°20′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 23°41′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 29°36′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 6 line 2 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 54, ambition, line 6, the Role Model line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 19, wanting, line 2, the Hermit line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 54 and gate 19.
The Moon's line changes, 11 January 2016, UTC
| 01:30 | 41.2 | contraction |
| 03:08 | 41.3 | contraction |
| 04:44 | 41.4 | contraction |
| 06:22 | 41.5 | contraction |
| 07:58 | 41.6 | contraction |
| 09:36 | 19.1 | wanting |
| 11:14 | 19.2 | wanting |
| 12:50 | 19.3 | wanting |
| 14:26 | 19.4 | wanting |
| 16:04 | 19.5 | wanting |
| 17:40 | 19.6 | wanting |
| 19:18 | 13.1 | the listener |
| 20:54 | 13.2 | the listener |
| 22:30 | 13.3 | the listener |
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
Jupiter conjunction Rahu, 0.5° from exact and closing: the two acting as one.
Uranus square Pluto, 1.3° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Venus trine Uranus, 1.8° from exact and closing: 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 24.08 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
14 Jan 2016: Mercury enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
15 Jan 2016: Sun enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
19 Jan 2016: Venus enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
20 Jan 2016: Sun enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
24 Jan 2016: Venus enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
24 Jan 2016: full Moon.
26 Jan 2016: Mercury turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
08 Feb 2016: new Moon.
09 Feb 2016: Mercury enters Capricorn in the sidereal 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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