Once a year, without fanfare, Neptune appears to stop moving through the sky and begins a long, slow backward drift. Today, July 7, 2026, is that day. From our vantage point on Earth, the planet looks as though it has paused, gathered itself, and decided to retrace its steps.
The day opens under a Last Quarter Moon in Aries — that restless, ruddy-faced fire sign — which means the Moon is waning toward darkness, shrinking from its fullness and asking us to release what no longer fits.
The week opens under a waning Last Quarter Moon in Pisces, that soft, dissolving light that asks you to release more than you reach for. The Sun in Cancer is bumping up against Saturn today — a tension between the urge to nest and nurture and the hard, clarifying demands of responsibility and…
The Moon floats through Pisces today, large and luminous in her waning gibbous phase — about three-quarters full, still bright enough to cast soft shadows, but beginning her long exhale toward darkness.
Saturday opens under a Waning Gibbous Moon in Pisces — still bright, still full of feeling, but beginning its long exhale toward quiet. The Sun rests in Cancer, that tender, tide-pulled sign of home and memory, and together these two water placements wrap the day in something soft and slightly…
Friday arrives wrapped in a particular kind of tension — the kind that is also, quietly, an invitation. The Moon is full and bright in Aquarius, just past her peak and beginning the long exhale of the waning gibbous phase, flooding the night sky with almost-full light and casting everything in a…
The Moon is nearly full in Aquarius tonight, a waning gibbous washing the world in cool, silvery light — that particular quality of brightness that asks you to look at things clearly rather than tenderly.
The first day of July arrives under a sky stretched taut between two poles. The Moon is full — or nearly so, glowing at 98% in the sign of Capricorn — and it stands directly across the sky from Mercury, which is currently moving backward through its course.
Something significant shifts in the sky today. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, moves out of Cancer and into Leo — and it will stay there for roughly a year. If you want a simple picture of what that means: imagine the most generous, expansive, optimistic force in astrology walking…
Every few months, Mercury does something that looks, from our vantage point on Earth, like it stops moving forward and begins to drift backward through the sky. Today, Tuesday the thirtieth of June, is the day it pauses — the moment astronomers call a station — before beginning that apparent…