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Today's sky in depth →Today's teaching →Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Venus sextile Jupiter
Venus, retrograde in Libra, a sign the tradition gives it as its own, turns exactly sextile Jupiter in Leo today. It is the closest contact in the sky and the tightest leg of the mystic rectangle Venus shares with Jupiter, Chiron and the North Node. Retrograde Venus turns old ties into a private question, whether they are still wanted, and Jupiter adds the wish to be generous about them. A sextile only offers, so the warmth counts if someone acts on it. Leo's catch is pride. If each side waits to be acknowledged first, nothing moves, and Jupiter can inflate a simple apology into a show of generosity played for applause. The Sun meets retrograde Mercury in Scorpio today: if pride does the talking, the friction is self-made; if not, the point can get across. The Virgo Moon, in sextile to both, favours saying it plainly and precisely.
Where the planets are today
| Planet | Sign | Deg | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉Sun | ♏Scorpio | 12.08° | Direct |
| ☽Moon | ♍Virgo | 15.37° | Direct |
| ☿Mercury | ♏Scorpio | 12.30° | Rx |
| ♀Venus | ♎Libra | 24.68° | Rx |
| ♂Mars | ♌Leo | 20.36° | Direct |
| ♃Jupiter | ♌Leo | 24.73° | Direct |
| ♄Saturn | ♈Aries | 9.06° | Rx |
| ♅Uranus | ♊Gemini | 4.56° | Rx |
| ♆Neptune | ♈Aries | 2.00° | Rx |
| ♇Pluto | ♒Aquarius | 3.15° | Direct |
| ⚷Chiron | ♈Aries | 27.93° | Rx |
| ☊North Node | ♒Aquarius | 26.58° | — |
| ⚸Lilith | ♑Capricorn | 5.67° | — |
Today's teaching
Moon enters Virgo
When the Moon enters Virgo, the part of us that feels and reacts before it thinks takes on the manner of an earth sign built for craft, analysis and service. In astrology the Moon stands for feeling and the need to feel safe: the reflex reaction, the sense of being at home, the conditions under which a person is at ease with themselves. Old habits and practised skills that no longer need thought are its province. The old tradition gave it the soul's unreasoning side. It can operate unnoticed, yet sustained effort on oneself can bring any of it into view. Virgo is earth and mutable, ruled by Mercury, which is also exalted there. The Moon rules the earth triplicity by night, so the element is not foreign to it. Virgo meets the practical world as something to adapt to and get right. Its reward is the private certainty of a job well made, not applause. A planet placed there becomes more exact and careful, and takes on the sign's urge to perfect, examine and sort. Read together, the Moon in Virgo looks for security through order and usefulness. Feeling settles when something is put right, sorted, finished or of use to someone. This gives a readiness to help unasked, an honest view of oneself, a quick eye for the point that matters, and the craftsman's pleasure when a thing works as well as it is made. The same pull can turn hard. Self-criticism can become merciless, small things irritate, criticism stings, and unnoticed effort hurts. When nothing around it feels dependable, attention shrinks to detail and the larger view is lost. Things are kept spotless, or tidiness is abandoned the moment it falls short. Pressed by others, this placement can give way and fit in. What it needs is acceptance, flaws included. Feeling differs from emotion: feeling is a true reading of a situation that words may not catch, emotion the same faculty thrown off balance, which blurs what is seen. A sign that analyses is well placed to tell the two apart, provided the analysis is turned on the mood and not on the self. In the kabbalistic reading the Moon sits at Yesod, the foundation; Astrocábala makes it the first home of feeling. Virgo receives the letter Yod and, in one kabbalistic teacher's reading, the faculty of action, with the confidence that sincere effort can always set a damaged inner life right: the urge to repair instead of discard, and a refusal to give up hope.
Read today's teaching →This is astrology, not a horoscope.
For thousands of years people have watched the sky and studied how the movement of the planets meets human life. Why it works is still an open question. But the cycles are real and measurable: Saturn returns to where it stood at your birth roughly every twenty-nine years, Jupiter every twelve. The sky comes back to the same place — you never do. That is why the same transit is never quite the same experience twice.
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We work in western astrology, reading the sky as it actually is — the real positions, the real aspects, calculated rather than guessed.
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A birth chart is a map of exactly where every planet stood at the moment you were born — not just your Sun sign, but the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and every other body and point that shapes your chart, each in its own sign and house.
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See the example page →The planets as archetypes.
These are the common Western associations for each planet — not a claim that any single text invented them, but the figures and meanings most often used in this tradition.
Sun — Apollo
What you are here to express, and what grows when you do.
Moon — Selene
What makes you feel safe, held, at home.
Mercury — the messenger
How you think, speak, and cross between worlds.
Venus — Aphrodite
What you love, and how you decide what has value.
Mars — the warrior
How you act, want, and defend what is yours.
Jupiter — Zeus
Where you grow, trust, and reach further than is sensible.
Saturn — Cronos, keeper of time
Limit, structure, and what must be earned.
Uranus — the sky itself
Where pattern breaks, and what becomes possible when it does.
Neptune — lord of the sea
Where the edges dissolve: dream, longing, compassion.
Pluto — Hades
What ends, and what is made from what remains.
Chiron — the wounded healer
Where the old injury sits, and what it teaches you to offer others.
Black Moon Lilith — Lilith of the old legend
What you desire, what you miss, and what you regret.
These archetypes are ancient and shared, but they are never finished. Every astrologer who works with them adds something — a new angle, a new way of seeing how a placement lives in a real life. The symbols stay; the reading keeps growing.
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