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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.

‹ November 1977

December 1977

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☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn06:43

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♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius01:48

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●︎New Moon 18°33' Sagittarius17:33

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♄︎Saturn stations retrograde12:10

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde02:07

♂︎Mars stations retrograde19:11

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Geminids peak

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☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Sagittarius07:18

☉︎December solstice23:22

☉︎Sun enters Capricorn23:23

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Ursids peak

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○︎Full Moon 3°37' Cancer12:49

♆︎⚹︎Neptune sextile Pluto20:36

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♀︎Venus enters Capricorn22:09

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♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile Saturn23:52

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♃︎Jupiter retrogrades into Gemini23:49

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☿︎Mercury stations direct22:06

None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 18°33' Sagittarius10 Dec · 17:33
  • ○︎Full Moon 3°37' Cancer25 Dec · 12:49

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn01 Dec · 06:43
  • ♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius04 Dec · 01:48
  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into SagittariusRx21 Dec · 07:18
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 23:23
  • ♀︎Venus enters Capricorn27 Dec · 22:09
  • ♃︎Jupiter retrogrades into GeminiRx30 Dec · 23:49

  • ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 0°32' Virgo · opens a 135-day retrograde11 Dec · 12:10
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 7°27' Capricorn · opens a 20-day retrograde12 Dec · 02:07
  • ♂︎Mars stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 11°33' Leo · opens a 80-day retrograde12 Dec · 19:11
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 21°08' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde31 Dec · 22:06

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 23:22

Meteor showers

  • ·Geminids peakup to 150 an hour under a dark sky · asteroid 3200 Phaethon14 Dec
  • ·Ursids peakup to 10 an hour under a dark sky · comet 8P/Tuttle22 Dec

  • ♆︎⚹︎Neptune sextile PlutoNeptune 16°31' Sagittarius · Pluto 16°31' Libra25 Dec · 20:36
  • ♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile SaturnJupiter 0°15' Cancer Rx · Saturn 0°15' Virgo Rx28 Dec · 23:52

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.