The sky on Thursday, July 15, 2027

Sun in	Cancer
Moon in	Sagittarius
Moon phase	Waxing Gibbous
Illumination	91%
Ingresses	Mars enters Libra
Exact aspects	Jupiter trine Saturn
Mercury retrograde	No

Mars enters Libra today and begins a new chapter of its cycle there. 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 Sagittarius, more than half lit and still filling out.

What does Mars mean in astrology?

Mars is the planet of drive: effort, appetite, competition and the honest form of anger that tells you a boundary was crossed.

It takes about two years to go round the zodiac, so it spends roughly six or seven weeks in a sign, and much longer where it is retrograde. It rules Aries and, in the classical scheme Undersky uses, Scorpio as well.

Older texts describe Mars in blunt terms, and the modern reading is more useful: it is the capacity to push, cut and finish, which is as necessary as it is easy to misfire. Where Mars is loud, the question is what you are aiming it at.

A Mars contact is a description of energy available, never a statement that a conflict is coming. What gets done with it is a choice.