The sky on 8 September 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 new, invisible beside the Sun; the tradition reads it as the quiet start of a lunar month.
Sun is at 15°47′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 21°40′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 64 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 28°28′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 4°20′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 29 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 4°22′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 10°15′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 59 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 29°22′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 5°14′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 50 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 29°34′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 5°26′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 18°15′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 24°08′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 1 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 2°33′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 8°26′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 10 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 2°10′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 8°02′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 27 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 Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.
Neptune is at 15°04′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 20°56′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 63 line 4 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 Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 18°53′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 24°46′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 54 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 Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 5°22′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 11°15′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 31 line 4 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 64, confusion, line 5, the Heretic line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 29, saying yes, line 5, the Heretic line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 64 and gate 29.
The Moon's line changes, 8 September 2018, UTC
| 01:06 | 4.4 | formulisation |
| 02:36 | 4.5 | formulisation |
| 04:06 | 4.6 | formulisation |
| 05:38 | 29.1 | saying yes |
| 07:08 | 29.2 | saying yes |
| 08:40 | 29.3 | saying yes |
| 10:10 | 29.4 | saying yes |
| 11:40 | 29.5 | saying yes |
| 13:12 | 29.6 | saying yes |
| 14:42 | 59.1 | sexuality |
| 16:12 | 59.2 | sexuality |
| 17:44 | 59.3 | sexuality |
| 19:14 | 59.4 | sexuality |
| 20:46 | 59.5 | sexuality |
| 22:16 | 59.6 | sexuality |
| 23:48 | 40.1 | aloneness |
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 square Mars, 0.2° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Saturn trine Uranus, 0.4° from exact and opening: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Jupiter sextile Pluto, 0.6° from exact and closing: an easy opening between the two.
Sun opposition Neptune, 0.7° from exact and opening: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Moon sextile Venus, 0.9° from exact and closing: an easy opening between the two.
Mercury trine Saturn, 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 24.12 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
09 Sep 2018: Venus enters Scorpio in the tropical zodiac.
10 Sep 2018: new Moon.
11 Sep 2018: Mars enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
17 Sep 2018: Sun enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
19 Sep 2018: Mercury enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
22 Sep 2018: Mercury enters Libra in the tropical zodiac.
23 Sep 2018: Sun enters Libra in the tropical zodiac, which is the equinox or the solstice.
25 Sep 2018: full Moon.
01 Oct 2018: Pluto turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
06 Oct 2018: Venus turns retrograde. A Venus retrograde is read as a review of what is valued and who.
06 Oct 2018: Mercury enters Libra 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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