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Celestial Calendar

About Celestial Calendar

Eclipses, New and Full Moons, ingresses, stations, the equinoxes and solstices, meteor showers and exact outer-planet aspects, month by month, from the same engine as the sky.

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♀︎Venus enters Gemini07:22

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♅︎Uranus stations direct11:22

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●︎New Moon 21°11' Aries02:39

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Uranus05:36

☿︎Mercury enters Taurus17:09

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♂︎□︎Mars square Neptune17:47

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♂︎Mars enters Aquarius23:39

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♃︎Jupiter stations direct13:00

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn17:31

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☉︎Sun enters Taurus02:43

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Lyrids peak

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○︎Full Moon 4°50' Scorpio01:41

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☿︎Mercury enters Gemini22:41

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None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 21°11' Aries11 Apr · 02:39
  • ○︎Full Moon 4°50' Scorpio25 Apr · 01:41

  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini04 Apr · 07:22
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Taurus12 Apr · 17:09
  • ♂︎Mars enters Aquarius14 Apr · 23:39
  • ☉︎Sun enters Taurus20 Apr · 02:43
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini29 Apr · 22:41

  • ♅︎Uranus stations directstandstill at 28°13' Cancer · closes the 149-day retrograde05 Apr · 11:22
  • ♃︎Jupiter stations directstandstill at 21°29' Leo · closes the 121-day retrograde17 Apr · 13:00

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Lyrids peakup to 18 an hour under a dark sky · comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher22 Apr

  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition UranusMars 28°14' Capricorn · Uranus 28°14' Cancer12 Apr · 05:36
  • ♂︎□︎Mars square NeptuneMars 29°12' Capricorn · Neptune 29°12' Libra Rx13 Apr · 17:47
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 1°45' Aquarius · Saturn 1°45' Sagittarius Rx17 Apr · 17:31

All times Universal Time (UT), solved to the minute. Eclipse rows give the kind seen at the best-placed point on Earth and the instant of greatest eclipse; where you stand decides what you see, and a partial or penumbral eclipse is listed on the same terms as a total one. An ingress is the crossing itself; a station is the standstill, as on the retrograde calendar; the equinoxes and solstices are the Sun's cardinal ingresses; meteor peaks are dates from the shower catalogue, not instants; an outer-planet aspect is listed at each exact pass, so a retrograde series is several rows. The Moon's signs and void-of-course windows are on the moon calendar, and every planet's daily position on the ephemeris table. Nothing here is read against a chart: for your own dates see the timeline.