What the Daily Edition is

One page for every calendar date, about the sky everyone on Earth shares that day. The numbers come first: the Sun, Moon and planets through Pluto are computed from NASA JPL’s DE442 ephemeris with the Skyfield library, as apparent positions on the ecliptic of date — the tropical zodiac. Exact moments (a planet changing sign, stopping, or meeting another) are timed to the minute and printed in Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific time plus UTC. Each page goes live on its own date, counted in US Eastern time.

On days with a full edition, Shymea Editorial writes from those numbers for someone who knows nothing about astrology: what the day is good for, what it costs, and one thing to try. It is not the work of a named practising astrologer, and the exact degrees stay one tap away in each section’s “The sky behind it”. Other days show the computed sky on its own.

How a page is laid out

  • The lead — the day’s main event in plain words, with a line for each of the twelve signs.
  • Tonight’s sky — what you can see after dark, a sky chart looking out from New York, and sunset, moonrise and planet rise times for four US cities.
  • Love, work and body — when the day has something to say about them.
  • Sign spotlight — one sign, with where today’s planets fall in its chart.
  • Learn from today — one idea from astrology, explained from zero with today as the example.
  • Timing — every exact moment of the day, in four US time zones and UTC.

Each sign links to its own horoscope page, where the sign’s Today card is built from the same day’s data and links back here.

The words you will meet

  • Exact — the minute two bodies stand at precisely the aspect’s angle (0°, 60°, 90°, 120° or 180°). Listed times are these instants.
  • Orb — how far from exact an aspect is, in degrees and minutes.
  • Applying / separating — an aspect is applying while the gap is closing and separating once it is past exact and widening.
  • Void of course — the stretch from the Moon’s last exact conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition in its current sign until it enters the next sign. Traditionally a time to finish rather than start.
  • Ingress — a body entering a new sign; for the Moon, roughly every two and a half days.
  • Retrograde — a planet that appears, from Earth, to move backwards through the zodiac for a while. The Sun and Moon never do.