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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♂︎Mars enters Capricorn17:38
Geminids peak
○︎Full Moon 22°10' Gemini12:31
☿︎Mercury stations direct16:01
☉︎December solstice05:20
☉︎Sun enters Capricorn05:20
Ursids peak
♄︎Saturn stations retrograde21:12
●︎New Moon 7°44' Capricorn19:36
♂︎△︎Mars trine Saturn23:03
None this month.
- ○︎Full Moon 22°10' Gemini14 Dec · 12:31
- ●︎New Moon 7°44' Capricorn29 Dec · 19:36
- ♂︎Mars enters Capricorn12 Dec · 17:38
- ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 05:20
- ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 5°21' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde15 Dec · 16:01
- ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 13°56' Virgo · opens a 136-day retrograde24 Dec · 21:12
Equinoxes and solstices
- ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 05:20
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
- ♂︎△︎Mars trine SaturnMars 13°54' Capricorn · Saturn 13°54' Virgo Rx30 Dec · 23:03
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.