The sky on 23 December 2017
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 1°51′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 7°44′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 10 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 28°38′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 4°32′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 30 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 13°01′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 18°55′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 5 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 27°50′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 3°43′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 11 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 8°52′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 14°45′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 44 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 15°27′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 21°20′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 1 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 0°23′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 6°17′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 10 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 24°37′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 0°31′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 42 line 5 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 Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.
Neptune is at 11°44′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 17°38′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 63 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 18°29′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 24°23′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 15°39′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 21°33′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 7 line 3 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 10, the behaviour of the self, line 4, the Opportunist 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 5, the Heretic line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 10 and gate 30.
The Moon's line changes, 23 December 2017, UTC
| 00:04 | 49.5 | principles |
| 01:56 | 49.6 | principles |
| 03:48 | 30.1 | the recognition of feelings |
| 05:40 | 30.2 | the recognition of feelings |
| 07:32 | 30.3 | the recognition of feelings |
| 09:24 | 30.4 | the recognition of feelings |
| 11:14 | 30.5 | the recognition of feelings |
| 13:06 | 30.6 | the recognition of feelings |
| 14:58 | 55.1 | spirit |
| 16:48 | 55.2 | spirit |
| 18:40 | 55.3 | spirit |
| 20:30 | 55.4 | spirit |
| 22:20 | 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
Jupiter square Rahu, 0.2° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Moon sextile Venus, 0.8° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Mercury square Neptune, 1.3° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Sun conjunction Saturn, 1.5° from exact and opening: the two acting as one.
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 24.11 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
25 Dec 2017: Venus enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
02 Jan 2018: full Moon.
02 Jan 2018: Uranus turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
06 Jan 2018: Mercury enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
11 Jan 2018: Mercury enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
13 Jan 2018: Venus enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
14 Jan 2018: Sun enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
17 Jan 2018: Mars enters Scorpio in the sidereal zodiac.
17 Jan 2018: new Moon.
18 Jan 2018: Venus enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
20 Jan 2018: Sun enters Aquarius 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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