The sky on 4 September 2019
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 at first quarter, half lit and growing.
Sun is at 11°41′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 17°32′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 64 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 21°25′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 27°17′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 43 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 12°05′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 17°57′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 64 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 17°30′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 23°22′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 47 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 11° Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 16°52′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 40 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 15°22′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 21°14′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 5 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 14°04′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 19°56′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 38 line 5 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Saturn retrograde is read as structure being tested from the inside. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 6°23′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 12°16′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 27 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 17°28′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 23°20′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 22 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 Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 20°50′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 26°42′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 61 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 Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 15°59′ Cancer in the tropical zodiac, 21°51′ Gemini in the sidereal, gate 53 line 1 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 1, the Investigator line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 43, insight, line 3, the Martyr line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 64 and gate 43.
The Moon's line changes, 4 September 2019, UTC
| 01:08 | 1.3 | self-expression |
| 02:44 | 1.4 | self-expression |
| 04:20 | 1.5 | self-expression |
| 05:58 | 1.6 | self-expression |
| 07:36 | 43.1 | insight |
| 09:12 | 43.2 | insight |
| 10:50 | 43.3 | insight |
| 12:28 | 43.4 | insight |
| 14:08 | 43.5 | insight |
| 15:46 | 43.6 | insight |
| 17:24 | 14.1 | power skills |
| 19:04 | 14.2 | power skills |
| 20:42 | 14.3 | power skills |
| 22:22 | 14.4 | power skills |
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 opposition Neptune, 0.0° from exact and opening: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Sun conjunction Mercury, 0.4° from exact and opening: the two acting as one.
Moon sextile Pluto, 0.6° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Sun conjunction Mars, 0.7° from exact and opening: the two acting as one.
Mercury conjunction Mars, 1.1° from exact and opening: the two acting as one.
Neptune trine Rahu, 1.5° from exact and opening: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Venus sextile Rahu, 1.5° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Saturn opposition Rahu, 1.9° from exact and closing: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Mercury trine Saturn, 2.0° 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 24.13 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
10 Sep 2019: Venus enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
11 Sep 2019: Mercury enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
14 Sep 2019: full Moon.
14 Sep 2019: Mercury enters Libra in the tropical zodiac.
14 Sep 2019: Venus enters Libra in the tropical zodiac.
17 Sep 2019: Sun enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
18 Sep 2019: Saturn turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
23 Sep 2019: Sun enters Libra in the tropical zodiac, which is the equinox or the solstice.
25 Sep 2019: Mars enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
29 Sep 2019: new Moon.
29 Sep 2019: Mercury enters Libra in the sidereal zodiac.
03 Oct 2019: Mercury enters Scorpio in the tropical zodiac.
03 Oct 2019: Pluto turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
04 Oct 2019: Venus enters Libra in the sidereal zodiac.
04 Oct 2019: Mars enters Libra 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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