The sky on 22 December 2026
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 0°38′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, 6°25′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 10 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Sun with authority, health and where one stands on one's own account.
Moon is at 8°27′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 14°13′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 16 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Moon with mood, appetite and what is needed rather than wanted.
Mercury is at 24°53′ Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac, 0°38′ Sagittarius in the sidereal, gate 11 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mercury with talking, writing, negotiating and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
Venus is at 14°22′ Scorpio in the tropical zodiac, 20°08′ Libra in the sidereal, gate 1 line 2 in Human Design. The tradition associates Venus with relationship, comfort, money and taste.
Mars is at 8°19′ Virgo in the tropical zodiac, 14°05′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 40 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Mars with effort, friction and the willingness to force a thing through.
Jupiter is at 26°53′ Leo in the tropical zodiac, 2°38′ Leo in the sidereal, gate 29 line 3 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 8°03′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 13°49′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 17 line 5 in Human Design. The tradition associates Saturn with structure, limit, work and time.
Uranus is at 2°37′ Gemini in the tropical zodiac, 8°23′ Taurus in the sidereal, gate 20 line 3 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 1°38′ Aries in the tropical zodiac, 7°25′ Pisces in the sidereal, gate 25 line 4 in Human Design. The tradition associates Neptune with what is blurred, longed for and dissolved.
Pluto is at 4°05′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 9°51′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 41 line 3 in Human Design. The tradition associates Pluto with what is buried, and what is forced up.
Rahu is at 21°49′ Aquarius in the tropical zodiac, 27°35′ Capricorn in the sidereal, gate 49 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 10, the behaviour of the self, line 3, the Martyr line: the gate the whole day is read through, and the line it sits on. The Moon is in gate 16, skills, line 3, the Martyr line, and moves on within hours. Each gate has its own page in the library: gate 10 and gate 16.
The Moon's line changes, 22 December 2026, UTC
| 00:10 | 20.2 | the now |
| 01:42 | 20.3 | the now |
| 03:12 | 20.4 | the now |
| 04:42 | 20.5 | the now |
| 06:12 | 20.6 | the now |
| 07:42 | 16.1 | skills |
| 09:12 | 16.2 | skills |
| 10:42 | 16.3 | skills |
| 12:12 | 16.4 | skills |
| 13:40 | 16.5 | skills |
| 15:10 | 16.6 | skills |
| 16:40 | 35.1 | change |
| 18:08 | 35.2 | change |
| 19:38 | 35.3 | change |
| 21:08 | 35.4 | change |
| 22:36 | 35.5 | 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
Moon square Mars, 0.1° from exact and opening: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Moon sextile Saturn, 0.4° from exact and opening: an easy opening between the two.
Uranus sextile Neptune, 1.0° from exact and closing: an easy opening between the two.
Sun square Neptune, 1.0° from exact and closing: friction between the two, which is where the work is.
Uranus trine Pluto, 1.5° from exact and opening: 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 24.23 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
24 Dec 2026: full Moon.
26 Dec 2026: Mercury enters Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
01 Jan 2027: Venus enters Scorpio in the sidereal zodiac.
07 Jan 2027: Venus enters Sagittarius in the tropical zodiac.
08 Jan 2027: new Moon.
10 Jan 2027: Mercury enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
10 Jan 2027: Mars turns retrograde. A Mars retrograde is read as effort turned inward, a season for finishing rather than starting fights.
13 Jan 2027: Mercury enters Aquarius in the tropical zodiac.
14 Jan 2027: Sun enters Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac.
20 Jan 2027: Sun enters Aquarius 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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