This month
A month has no single moment, so this page reports one sample for each of its days: the calculation service was asked for the sky at the start of every day in universal time.
What follows is what those samples showed: which bodies held one sign throughout, which changed sign, and which were moving backwards as seen from Earth. Choose a sign below for its edition. Every edition is built from the same month.
Choose a sign
Twelve editions of one period. Every reader of an edition gets identical text.
The sky across this period
One sample per day of the calendar month, taken at the start of each day in universal time. This is a description of the solar system, identical for every reader.
- Period
- to
- Days sampled
- 30 / 30
A period is not an instant, so a cadence is chosen and stated: one sample per day at 00:00 UTC, the same choice for every reader. A change between two samples is dated to the later sample, and no crossing time is claimed.
Bodies that changed sign in this period
Reported when two samples carried different sign names. The date is the first sample that showed the new sign, not the moment of the crossing.
| Body | From | To | First seen on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | Libra | |
| Moon | Aries | Taurus | |
| Moon | Taurus | Gemini | |
| Moon | Gemini | Cancer | |
| Moon | Cancer | Leo | |
| Moon | Leo | Virgo | |
| Moon | Virgo | Libra | |
| Moon | Libra | Scorpio | |
| Moon | Scorpio | Sagittarius | |
| Moon | Sagittarius | Capricorn | |
| Moon | Capricorn | Aquarius | |
| Moon | Aquarius | Pisces | |
| Mercury | Virgo | Libra | |
| Venus | Libra | Scorpio | |
| Mars | Cancer | Leo |
Bodies that held one sign throughout
These carried the same sign name in every sample of the period.
| Body | Sign | Apparent motion |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | Leo | Direct |
| Saturn | Aries | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Gemini | Direct, Retrograde |
| Neptune | Aries | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Aquarius | Retrograde |
Calculation details
- Ephemeris
- de440s
- Kernel file
- de440s.bsp
- Zodiac
- tropical
- Reference frame
- true-ecliptic-and-equinox-of-date
- Position mode
- apparent