The sky on 1 January 2025
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 11°19′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 17°07′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 38 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 0°40′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 6°27′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 20°31′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 26°19′ Scorpio in the sidereal, gate 26 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 28°15′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 4°02′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 30 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 1°45′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 7°33′ Cancer in the sidereal, gate 56 line 6 in Human Design, and retrograde; a Mars retrograde is read as effort turned inward, a season for finishing rather than starting fights. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 13°10′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 18°58′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 35 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 14°34′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 20°22′ Aquarius in the sidereal, gate 63 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 23°37′ Taurus in the tropical zodiac, 29°25′ Aries in the sidereal, gate 23 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 27°18′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac, 3°06′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 36 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 1°05′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 6°52′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 60 line 6 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 0°47′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 6°34′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 25 line 3 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 38, the fighter, line 2, the Hermit line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 60, acceptance, line 5, the Heretic line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 38 and gate 60.
The Moon's line changes, 1 January 2025, UTC
| 01:04 | 61.5 | mystery |
| 02:44 | 61.6 | mystery |
| 04:24 | 60.1 | acceptance |
| 06:04 | 60.2 | acceptance |
| 07:44 | 60.3 | acceptance |
| 09:24 | 60.4 | acceptance |
| 11:04 | 60.5 | acceptance |
| 12:44 | 60.6 | acceptance |
| 14:24 | 41.1 | contraction |
| 16:02 | 41.2 | contraction |
| 17:42 | 41.3 | contraction |
| 19:22 | 41.4 | contraction |
| 21:00 | 41.5 | contraction |
| 22:40 | 41.6 | contraction |
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
Moon sextile Rahu, 0.1° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Pluto sextile Rahu, 0.3° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Moon conjunction Pluto, 0.4° from exact and closing: the two acting as one.
Mars opposition Pluto, 0.7° from exact and closing: the two facing each other, and the pull to choose.
Mars trine Rahu, 1.0° from exact and closing: an ease between the two that can go unused.
Jupiter square Saturn, 1.4° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
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 24.21 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
03 Jan 2025: Venus enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.
04 Jan 2025: Mercury enters Sagittarius in the sidereal zodiac.
06 Jan 2025: Mars enters Cancer in the tropical zodiac.
08 Jan 2025: Mercury enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
12 Jan 2025: Rahu enters Pisces in the tropical zodiac.
14 Jan 2025: full Moon.
14 Jan 2025: Sun enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
20 Jan 2025: Sun enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
21 Jan 2025: Mars enters Gemini in the sidereal zodiac.
24 Jan 2025: Mercury enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
28 Jan 2025: Mercury enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
28 Jan 2025: Venus enters Pisces in the sidereal zodiac.
29 Jan 2025: new Moon.
30 Jan 2025: Uranus turns direct. The tradition reads a station direct as the body's business resuming.
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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