PLANETARY POSITIONS TOMORROW, TRANSITING IN REAL TIME

Reading the wheel. Every marker sits at its true position for this second, recalculated continuously. The solid arc behind each body is the ground it has covered since midnight; the pale arc is the whole of today. On the Moon that arc is a visible sweep. On the Sun and Mercury it is a short stroke. On Uranus, Neptune and Pluto there is nothing to see, which is why a single figure holds good for them for weeks. Hollow markers are retrograde. Chords across the centre are the major aspects, drawn heavier as the orb tightens. Tropical and geocentric, computed from the Swiss Ephemeris.

ALL SIGNS - TOMORROW  

Tomorrow the month restarts in the dark, which is the only way a month can restart. The New Moon in Leo falls in the evening, and because it lands close to the nodal axis it is not an ordinary one — the Moon crosses the Sun's face and the eclipse takes the light out of the sign that exists to hold light. Everything before tomorrow evening is the old cycle finishing. Everything after is a beginning nobody can yet see the shape of. Eclipses do not deliver on the day. They open a subject and let it run for months.

The eclipse sits on the releasing end of the axis, nearer the South Node than the North, and that tilts the whole event. This is not the kind of eclipse that hands you something. It is the kind that takes a thing out of your hands so that the hands are free — which never feels like a gift while it is happening and frequently looks like one a year later. What goes tomorrow was already finished. The eclipse only makes it official.

Nothing from the slow planets interferes, and that is worth naming, because it is unusual. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all sit too far from the eclipse degree to tangle with it. There is no hard aspect complicating the picture, no structural planet arguing with it. The eclipse is clean, uncluttered, and about exactly what it appears to be about: visibility, authorship, and what you are willing to have your name on.

The morning belongs to Jupiter before the light goes, as the Moon passes over it in Leo in the early hours — the last thing the old cycle does is meet the most generous planet in the chart. So tomorrow opens expansively and closes in the dark, which is the reverse of how a day is supposed to feel. Take the early optimism seriously. It is not naivety; it is the closing gesture of something that has been building all summer.

Mars spends its first full day in new territory, having crossed into Cancer today, and the awkwardness will not have worn off by tomorrow. Force still will not work the way it did last week. On a day with an eclipse in it, the temptation to push is strong and the return on pushing is nil. What holds tomorrow is whatever you are prepared to simply keep hold of.

One aspect remains easy, the sextile between Venus in her own sign and Mercury, still open tomorrow though beginning to separate. It is the same gift as today and it expires: a sentence that carries further than its weight explains. If there is something true you have been meaning to say to one particular person, tomorrow is the last day this month it will land this cheaply.

Do not judge tomorrow by tomorrow, because eclipses are read backwards. A New Moon in Leo, an axis tipped toward release, a Jupiter-lit morning giving way to a dark evening, Mars still learning water, and one graceful line of speech before it closes. Nothing here needs deciding, announcing or launching — the eclipse will take its own months to explain itself. Notice what leaves. Notice what you are relieved to see leave. That is the whole of the instruction, and it is enough.

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