The sky on 1 October 2023
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 waning gibbous, past full and rising later each night.
Sun is at 8°03′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 13°52′ Virgo in the sidereal, gate 18 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 6°22′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 12°10′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 27 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 23°58′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 29°47′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 6 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 23°57′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 29°46′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 4 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 22°50′ Libra in the tropical zodiac, 28°39′ Virgo in the sidereal, gate 32 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 14°23′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 20°12′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 2 line 2 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 1°27′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 7°16′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 55 line 2 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 22°38′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 28°26′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 23 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 25°56′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 1°45′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 36 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 27°55′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 3°43′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 2 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 24°54′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 0°43′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 42 line 5 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 18, correction, line 5, the Heretic line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 27, caring, line 5, the Heretic line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 18 and gate 27.
The Moon's line changes, 1 October 2023, UTC
| 01:32 | 3.5 | ordering |
| 03:06 | 3.6 | ordering |
| 04:40 | 27.1 | caring |
| 06:14 | 27.2 | caring |
| 07:50 | 27.3 | caring |
| 09:24 | 27.4 | caring |
| 10:58 | 27.5 | caring |
| 12:34 | 27.6 | caring |
| 14:10 | 24.1 | rationalisation |
| 15:44 | 24.2 | rationalisation |
| 17:20 | 24.3 | rationalisation |
| 18:56 | 24.4 | rationalisation |
| 20:32 | 24.5 | rationalisation |
| 22:08 | 24.6 | rationalisation |
| 23:46 | 2.1 | the direction of the self |
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 Rahu, 0.9° from exact and closing: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Venus sextile Mars, 1.1° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Venus square Uranus, 1.3° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Mercury trine Uranus, 1.3° from exact and opening: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Neptune sextile Pluto, 2.0° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Mercury opposition Neptune, 2.0° from exact and closing: 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 24.19 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
01 Oct 2023: Mercury enters Virgo in the sidereal zodiac.
02 Oct 2023: Venus enters Leo in the sidereal zodiac.
03 Oct 2023: Mars enters Libra in the sidereal zodiac.
05 Oct 2023: Mercury enters Libra in the tropical zodiac.
09 Oct 2023: Venus enters Virgo in the tropical zodiac.
11 Oct 2023: Pluto turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
12 Oct 2023: Mars enters Scorpio in the tropical zodiac.
14 Oct 2023: new Moon.
18 Oct 2023: Sun enters Libra in the sidereal zodiac.
19 Oct 2023: Mercury enters Libra in the sidereal zodiac.
22 Oct 2023: Mercury enters Scorpio in the tropical zodiac.
23 Oct 2023: Sun enters Scorpio in the tropical zodiac.
29 Oct 2023: full Moon.
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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