The sky on Tuesday, July 13, 2027

Sun in	Cancer
Moon in	Scorpio
Moon phase	Waxing Gibbous
Illumination	77%
Exact aspects	Jupiter trine Saturn
Mercury retrograde	No

Jupiter and Saturn stand about a hundred and twenty degrees apart today, a trine, traditionally read as the easiest of the major angles. The Moon is in Scorpio, more than half lit and still filling out.

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.