How to read today’s sky, from the wheel to the aspects

What does the sky today page show?

The Sky today page opens with a sentence that sums up the moment: the date and the time in Paris, the Sun’s sign, the Moon’s sign and phase, then the dates of the next new moon and the next full moon. Positions are calculated with astronomical ephemerides, accurate to the arc minute, and the page updates continuously.

Below it come the blocks you will find in the same place every day. Each one answers a simple question, from the most visual to the most detailed:

• The wheel of the moment: the twelve signs, the planets placed at their degree and the aspect lines.
• The Moon phase: its name, the sign the Moon is crossing and the percentage of its surface that is lit.
• The planet grid: each planet with its sign and degree; one tap opens its interpretation.
• “Current aspects”: the angles under way between the main planets, with their orb in degrees.
• “Reading today’s sky”: a short text that puts these positions into words, from the Sun’s season to the tightest aspects.
• “Exact positions” and the full aspects table: the two detailed tables, for when you need a precise degree.

How to read the wheel of the moment

The wheel is a sky chart cast for the present moment, just like a birth chart, but for today. The twelve signs form the outer circle, each planet sits at its exact degree, and the houses are calculated for Paris, as the caption under the wheel reminds you. In the centre, lines connect the planets in aspect: reds for tension (square, opposition), blues for harmony (trine, sextile), gold for the conjunction.

The wheel is interactive. On a phone, tap a planet: a panel opens with its title (“Venus in Scorpio today”, for example), the area of life it rules, the colour its sign gives it, and “Its current aspects”, each linked to its own page. On a computer, hover over it or click. A sign, a house or an aspect line explains itself the same way.

The sky wheel follows the same rules as a natal chart wheel: the guide on how to read a chart wheel walks through each element, from the glyphs to the houses.

Press and hold on the wheel, then slide: a magnifier enlarges the area under your finger and each element explains itself as you pass. It is the quickest way to read a busy sky on a small screen.

Planets, aspects, Moon, retrogrades: the four landmarks of any day

A sky is always read in the same order: where the planets are, how they talk to each other, where the Moon stands, and which ones seem to move backwards. These four landmarks are enough to grasp the mood of a day and to know what will last.

• Planets in signs. The sign gives the style, the planet the area of life: Mars in Capricorn acts methodically, Venus in Leo loves openly. The slower the planet, the longer its sign weighs: the Moon changes sign every two and a half days, Saturn roughly every two and a half years. Each planet and each sign has its own page.
• Aspects. An aspect is a precise angle between two planets: conjunction, sextile, square, trine, opposition. The orb is the gap from the exact angle: the smaller it is, the more the aspect is felt. In the table, “applying” marks an aspect that is forming, “separating” one that is coming apart. Each angle is explained on the aspects page.
• The Moon. Its phase sets the rhythm of the month (sow at the new moon, harvest at the full moon), its sign the emotional climate of the day. Its big dates are easy to follow with the guide to the sky’s cycles.
• Retrogrades. A small “R” on a planet badge, or “R · retrograde” in the table, marks a planet that appears to move backwards as seen from Earth: a time to review and repair in its area. The dates of each period are on the retrograde planets page.

Yesterday’s sky, tomorrow’s, or any date you choose

Under the title, three buttons lead to the dated pages: “← Yesterday”, “Page for” followed by today’s date (a fixed address you can keep or share) and “Tomorrow →”. Each dated page shows the sky at noon, Paris time, with the same wheel, the same reading and the same tables. From there, “← Previous day” and “Next day →” step through the days, from the day before up to a week ahead, and “Today” takes you back to the live sky.

For any other date, past or future, change the date in the page address, in year-month-day format: /en/sky-today/2026-12-25 shows the sky on Christmas Day 2026. The site calculates every date from 1900 to 2100. It is handy for planning an appointment, revisiting the sky of a key event or finding the sky of a birth: on a dated page, the “Calculate the birth chart” link opens the chart for that day, ready for you to add the time and the city.

What holds for everyone, and what depends on where you are

A planet’s position in the zodiac is the same everywhere on Earth at the same moment: Venus at 12° Scorpio is at 12° Scorpio in Paris, in Montreal and in Tokyo. The planets, their signs, their degrees and their aspects are therefore valid for you, wherever you are. Only the Ascendant and the houses depend on the place, because they follow local time and latitude; the wheel shows them for Paris.

In practice, if you live on Paris time or within an hour of it at a similar latitude (London, Brussels, Geneva, all of France), the wheel is yours, houses included. If you are several hours apart, in New York or Sydney, read the planets and the aspects, and set aside the house numbers. The “Why?” link under the wheel leads to what is a transit, which explains this in detail.

For your transits, the place does not matter: a transit compares the position of a planet today with that of a planet in your birth chart, and that comparison is the same everywhere. “Saturn square your Moon” this month is true in Leeds and in Los Angeles alike.

From today’s sky to your own sky

Today’s sky is the same for everyone, but it does not touch everyone in the same place. A planet of the day that crosses the degree of one of your natal planets, or forms an aspect to it, concerns you directly: that is a transit. To see it without doing the maths yourself, follow these steps:

1. Calculate your free birth chart with your date, time and place of birth: the step-by-step guide takes about thirty seconds.
2. Open My transits: the page reads the current sky on your chart, with a reading of your week, the transits of the moment and those of the next twelve months (how to read it). If your device has no chart saved yet, the “See what the sky activates for me” button under the wheel takes you there too, form included.
3. Read the daily horoscope for your Sun sign, then for your rising sign: it applies the same sky to a whole sign and gives the trend of the day.
4. Ask your chart about this period from the chat button at the bottom right: five questions a week without an account, ten with a free account (how your chart answers).

A slow transit over a sensitive point of your chart (Sun, Moon, Ascendant) lasts for months: it sets the backdrop of the period. The Moon and the fast planets mostly colour the days.