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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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♄︎Saturn stations direct12:39

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☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn13:47

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Jupiter09:43

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10

●︎New Moon 18°55' Sagittarius16:56

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Geminids peak

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♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius05:33

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn14:06

☉︎December solstice14:06

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Ursids peak

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde19:42

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Neptune11:10

○︎Full Moon 3°20' Cancer20:41

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None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 18°55' Sagittarius10 Dec · 16:56
  • ○︎Full Moon 3°20' Cancer24 Dec · 20:41

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn04 Dec · 13:47
  • ♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius17 Dec · 05:33
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 14:06

  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 0°36' Aries · closes the 138-day retrograde03 Dec · 12:39
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 19°13' Capricorn · opens a 20-day retrograde23 Dec · 19:42

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 14:06

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 JupiterMars 19°53' Virgo · Jupiter 19°53' Capricorn08 Dec · 09:43
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine NeptuneMars 26°33' Virgo · Neptune 26°33' Capricorn24 Dec · 11:10

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.