The sky on 11 April 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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Where everything is

The Moon is a waning crescent, a thin morning Moon.

Sun is at 21°33′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 27°26′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 42 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.

Moon is at 26°35′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 2°29′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 30 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.

Mercury is at 5°27′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 11°20′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 17 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 13°53′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 19°46′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 2 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.

Mars is at 13°43′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 19°36′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 38 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.

Jupiter is at 21°34′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 27°26′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 43 line 3 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 9°07′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 15° Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 58 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.

Uranus is at 28°05′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 3°58′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 3 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.

Neptune is at 15°18′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 21°11′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 63 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.

Pluto is at 21°16′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 27°08′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 61 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.

Rahu is at 12°33′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 18°26′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 33 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 42, growth, line 1, the Investigator 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 3, the Martyr line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 42 and gate 30.

The Moon's line changes, 11 April 2018, UTC

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

Venus trine Mars, 0.2° from exact and opening: an ease between the two that can go unused.

Sun square Pluto, 0.3° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.

Jupiter sextile Pluto, 0.3° from exact and closing: an easy opening between the two.

Venus square Rahu, 1.3° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.

Venus sextile Neptune, 1.4° from exact and closing: an easy opening between the two.

Mars sextile Neptune, 1.6° from exact and closing: 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.

What turns in the next thirty days

14 Apr 2018: Sun enters Aries in the sidereal zodiac.

15 Apr 2018: Mercury turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.

16 Apr 2018: new Moon.

18 Apr 2018: Saturn turns retrograde. A Saturn retrograde is read as structure being tested from the inside.

20 Apr 2018: Venus enters Taurus in the sidereal zodiac.

20 Apr 2018: Sun enters Taurus in the tropical zodiac.

22 Apr 2018: Pluto turns retrograde. An outer planet is retrograde for months at a time; the tradition reads it as the theme turned inward.

24 Apr 2018: Venus enters Gemini in the tropical zodiac.

30 Apr 2018: full Moon.

02 May 2018: Mars enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.

09 May 2018: Mercury enters Aries 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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