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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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●︎New Moon 11°19' Leo01:01

♂︎Mars enters Libra09:06

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde23:06

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♀︎Venus enters Libra03:08

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Perseids peak

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☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Leo07:05

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○︎Full Moon 25°07' Aquarius10:14

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☉︎Sun enters Virgo11:56

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♆︎Neptune stations direct00:54

♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Pluto02:38

☿︎Mercury stations direct15:39

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Neptune22:40

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None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 11°19' Leo04 Aug · 01:01
  • ○︎Full Moon 25°07' Aquarius18 Aug · 10:14

  • ♂︎Mars enters Libra04 Aug · 09:06
  • ♀︎Venus enters Libra08 Aug · 03:08
  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into LeoRx13 Aug · 07:05
  • ☉︎Sun enters Virgo23 Aug · 11:56

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 3°00' Virgo · opens a 24-day retrograde04 Aug · 23:06
  • ♆︎Neptune stations directstandstill at 15°32' Sagittarius · closes the 160-day retrograde28 Aug · 00:54
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 20°20' Leo · closes the 24-day retrograde28 Aug · 15:39

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Perseids peakup to 100 an hour under a dark sky · comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle12 Aug

  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction PlutoMars 15°00' Libra · Pluto 15°00' Libra28 Aug · 02:38
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile NeptuneMars 15°32' Libra · Neptune 15°32' Sagittarius28 Aug · 22:40

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.