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Every daily sky reading, newest first. Search for a planet, sign or theme and return to what the sky was saying on any day.
October 2026
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Mars sextile Uranus
Mars and Uranus reached an exact sextile today, Mars in Leo and Uranus in Gemini, and from here they begin to separate. Mars is the planet of enterprise, frankness and a certain…
Tuesday, 6 October 2026
Mars sextile Uranus
Mars and Uranus reach an exact sextile today, and it is the clearest fact in the sky. Mars carries ambition, frankness, a sense of freedom and the push toward new enterprise.…
Monday, 5 October 2026
T-square
A T-square runs through today's sky. Mars in Leo stands opposite Pluto in Aquarius, and Mercury in Scorpio squares both, taking the strain of a quarrel it did not start. Mercury…
Sunday, 4 October 2026
Sun opposition Saturn
The Sun and Saturn stand exactly opposite each other today, the Sun in Libra and Saturn retrograde in Aries. Warmth meets cold across the sky, and neither side is at full…
Saturday, 3 October 2026
Mars opposition Pluto
Mars in Leo and Pluto in Aquarius came into exact opposition over the past day and are only now beginning to separate. Mars is fiery and dry. Leo, the Sun's house, is a sign of…
Friday, 2 October 2026
Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio
Venus comes to a standstill in Scorpio today and turns retrograde, halting at eight degrees of the sign before moving backwards against the zodiac. Ptolemy describes Venus at her…
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Mars trine Neptune
Mars in Leo reaches an exact trine with Neptune in Aries today, both in fire signs, and the contact is still building. Mars is direct assertion. Neptune loosens the boundaries…
September 2026
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Mercury enters Scorpio
Mercury enters Scorpio today, at the very first degree of the sign, and walks straight into the largest figure in the sky: a grand cross with Mars in Leo, Pluto in Aquarius and…
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Sun trine Uranus
The Sun in Libra has just passed its exact trine to Uranus in Gemini and is now moving off it, still close enough to set the tone of the day. Uranus disrupts, and in our reading…
Monday, 28 September 2026
Mars enters Leo
Mars enters Leo today, arriving at the very first degree of the sign, and it steps straight into pressure. Ptolemy calls Mars fiery by nature. It now joins a sky where fire and…
Sunday, 27 September 2026
Mars square Chiron
Mars squares Chiron exactly today, the sharpest contact in the sky. Mars sits in the final degree of Cancer, the sign of its fall, where Ptolemy places its fiery nature at its…
Saturday, 26 September 2026
Full Moon in Aries
Today brings the Full Moon. The Moon, newly in Aries, stands fully lit opposite the Sun in Libra, and it falls almost on top of Neptune. The Sun is exactly opposite Neptune as…
Friday, 25 September 2026
Sun opposition Neptune
The Sun is exactly opposite Neptune today and exactly trine Pluto, and between them they set the tone. Neptune loosens boundaries, including the one between what is and what is…
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Moon enters Pisces
The Moon enters Pisces today and holds the sign for about two days. The weightier fact is the Sun. Barely a degree and a half into Libra, it stands opposite Neptune in Aries, and…
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
Sun enters Libra
The Sun crosses into Libra today, and it arrives already under strain. Within half a degree of an exact square to Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn, and closing on an opposition to…
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Moon enters Aquarius
A tight T-square is forming, and the strain has one address. The Sun, at the very last degree of Virgo, stands opposite Neptune in Aries, and both are squared by Black Moon Lilith…
Monday, 21 September 2026
Venus quincunx Uranus
The day's steadiest fact is the Sun in Virgo trine the Moon in Capricorn, exact this morning and then separating. Earth to earth: the two lights are pulling in the same direction,…
Sunday, 20 September 2026
Venus quincunx Uranus
Venus in Scorpio sits exactly quincunx Uranus in Gemini today — as close to perfect as an aspect gets. The quincunx is the angle of things that will not line up: two bodies with…