The sky on 13 December 2020
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 21°56′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 27°47′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 26 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 5°46′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 11°38′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 9 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 18°15′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 24°06′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 26 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 27°17′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 3°08′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 14 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 20°20′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 26°11′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 51 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 28°42′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 4°33′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 29°37′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 5°28′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 7°09′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 13° Aries in the sidereal, gate 27 line 6 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 18°13′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 24°04′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 22 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 23°37′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 29°28′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 61 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 19°56′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 25°47′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 45 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 26, the egoist, line 6, the Role Model line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 9, focus, line 1, the Investigator line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 26 and gate 9.
The Moon's line changes, 13 December 2020, UTC
| 01:22 | 14.6 | power skills |
| 02:52 | 34.1 | power |
| 04:24 | 34.2 | power |
| 05:54 | 34.3 | power |
| 07:26 | 34.4 | power |
| 08:56 | 34.5 | power |
| 10:28 | 34.6 | power |
| 11:58 | 9.1 | focus |
| 13:30 | 9.2 | focus |
| 15:00 | 9.3 | focus |
| 16:32 | 9.4 | focus |
| 18:04 | 9.5 | focus |
| 19:34 | 9.6 | focus |
| 21:06 | 5.1 | fixed rhythms |
| 22:38 | 5.2 | fixed rhythms |
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 square Neptune, 0.0° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Mars sextile Rahu, 0.4° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Jupiter conjunction Saturn, 0.9° from exact and closing: the two acting as one.
Venus sextile Jupiter, 1.4° from exact and closing: an easy opening between the two.
Sun trine Mars, 1.6° from exact and opening: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Mercury opposition Rahu, 1.7° from exact and closing: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Neptune square Rahu, 1.7° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Sun opposition Rahu, 2.0° from exact and opening: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
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 24.15 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
14 Dec 2020: new Moon.
15 Dec 2020: Sun enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
15 Dec 2020: Venus enters Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac.
17 Dec 2020: Saturn enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
17 Dec 2020: Mercury enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
19 Dec 2020: Jupiter enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
21 Dec 2020: Mercury enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
21 Dec 2020: Sun enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, which is the equinox or the solstice.
24 Dec 2020: Mars enters Aries in the sidereal zodiac.
30 Dec 2020: full Moon.
31 Dec 2020: Pluto enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
04 Jan 2021: Venus enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
05 Jan 2021: Mercury enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
07 Jan 2021: Mars enters Taurus in the tropical zodiac.
08 Jan 2021: Mercury enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
08 Jan 2021: Venus enters Capricorn 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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