The sky on Monday, June 14, 2027
| Sun in | Gemini |
|---|---|
| Moon in | Scorpio |
| Moon phase | Waxing Gibbous |
| Illumination | 81% |
| Ingresses | Moon enters Scorpio |
| Exact aspects | Sun sextile Jupiter |
| Mercury retrograde | Yes |
Sun and Jupiter stand about sixty degrees apart today, a sextile, traditionally read as an easy, cooperative angle. The Moon is in Scorpio, more than half lit and still filling out. Mercury is retrograde.
What is a waxing gibbous moon?
A waxing gibbous moon is the stage between half and full, when the Moon is more than half lit and still brightening.
Illumination runs from about fifty to nearly one hundred percent, and the Moon is high in the sky for most of the evening. It is the easiest phase to photograph badly and the best one for seeing craters near the terminator line.
Read as a stage, this is refinement: the thing exists, it is nearly visible to other people, and most of what is left is adjustment rather than invention.
It is a good moment to ask what you would change if you had to show it tomorrow, and then to change only that.