MyDezign · Library · The sky today · 9 February 2018
Read at noon UTC · both zodiacs

The sky on 9 February 2018

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, tropicalAquarius
Sun, siderealCapricorn
Sun's gate49.2, principles
Moon's gate9.6 in Sagittarius
Moonlast quarter, 33% lit
Retrogradenothing

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Where everything is

The Moon is at last quarter, half lit and shrinking.

Sun is at 20°41′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 26°34′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 49 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.

Moon is at 11°04′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 16°57′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 9 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.

Mercury is at 14°41′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 20°35′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 13 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.

Venus is at 28°10′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 4°03′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 30 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.

Mars is at 8°32′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 14°26′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 9 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.

Jupiter is at 22°03′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 27°56′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 43 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.

Saturn is at 5°40′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 11°34′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 58 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.

Uranus is at 25°11′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 1°04′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 42 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.

Neptune is at 13°04′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 18°58′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 63 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.

Pluto is at 20°05′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 25°58′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.

Rahu is at 14°56′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 20°50′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 7 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 49, principles, line 2, the Hermit line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 9, focus, line 6, the Role Model line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 49 and gate 9.

The Moon's line changes, 9 February 2018, UTC

01:229.1focus
03:149.2focus
05:069.3focus
07:009.4focus
08:529.5focus
10:469.6focus
12:385.1fixed rhythms
14:325.2fixed rhythms
16:265.3fixed rhythms
18:185.4fixed rhythms
20:125.5fixed rhythms
22:065.6fixed rhythms
24:0026.1the egoist

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

Mercury opposition Rahu, 0.3° from exact and opening: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.

Sun square Jupiter, 1.4° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.

Jupiter sextile Pluto, 2.0° 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 24.11 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

11 Feb 2018: Venus enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.

13 Feb 2018: Sun enters Aquarius in the sidereal zodiac.

15 Feb 2018: Mercury enters Aquarius in the sidereal zodiac.

16 Feb 2018: new Moon.

18 Feb 2018: Mercury enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.

18 Feb 2018: Sun enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.

02 Mar 2018: full Moon.

02 Mar 2018: Venus enters Pisces in the sidereal zodiac.

03 Mar 2018: Mercury enters Pisces in the sidereal zodiac.

06 Mar 2018: Mercury enters Aries in the tropical zodiac.

07 Mar 2018: Venus enters Aries in the tropical zodiac.

07 Mar 2018: Mars enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.

09 Mar 2018: Jupiter turns retrograde. A Jupiter retrograde is read as growth consolidating rather than spreading.

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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