The sky on 17 December 2021
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 full, rising as the Sun sets; the tradition reads it as the month's high water.
Sun is at 25°46′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 1°36′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 11 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 7°31′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 13°21′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 16 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 5°55′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 11°44′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 58 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 26°25′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 2°15′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 1 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 2°52′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 8°42′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 34 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 27°53′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 3°44′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 30 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Jupiter with growth, teaching and the widening of things.
Saturn is at 10°25′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 16°15′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 19 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 11°15′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 17°05′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 24 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 Uranus with the sudden, the unconventional and the break with what was.
Neptune is at 20°29′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 26°19′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 22 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 25°29′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 1°19′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 61 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 1°43′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 7°32′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 20 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 11, ideas, line 4, the Opportunist line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 16, skills, line 2, the Hermit line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 11 and gate 16.
The Moon's line changes, 17 December 2021, UTC
| 00:48 | 20.3 | the now |
| 02:42 | 20.4 | the now |
| 04:36 | 20.5 | the now |
| 06:32 | 20.6 | the now |
| 08:26 | 16.1 | skills |
| 10:20 | 16.2 | skills |
| 12:14 | 16.3 | skills |
| 14:10 | 16.4 | skills |
| 16:04 | 16.5 | skills |
| 17:58 | 16.6 | skills |
| 19:52 | 35.1 | change |
| 21:48 | 35.2 | change |
| 23:42 | 35.3 | change |
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
Saturn square Uranus, 0.8° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Venus conjunction Pluto, 0.9° from exact and opening: the two acting as one.
Mars opposition Rahu, 1.1° 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 24.16 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
19 Dec 2021: full Moon.
19 Dec 2021: Venus turns retrograde. A Venus retrograde is read as a review of what is valued and who.
21 Dec 2021: Sun enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, which is the equinox or the solstice.
29 Dec 2021: Jupiter enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.
29 Dec 2021: Mercury enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
30 Dec 2021: Venus enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
02 Jan 2022: Mercury enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
03 Jan 2022: new Moon.
14 Jan 2022: Sun enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
14 Jan 2022: Mercury turns retrograde. A Mercury retrograde is read as a fortnight or so of things going back for a second look: messages, plans, paperwork.
16 Jan 2022: Mars enters Sagittarius 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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