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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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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde16:52

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♀︎Venus enters Aquarius04:38

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☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Sagittarius18:05

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○︎Full Moon 22°08' Gemini02:37

Geminids peak

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Neptune05:18

♄︎Saturn stations direct10:29

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♂︎Mars enters Aquarius06:36

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn20:06

☉︎December solstice20:07

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Ursids peak

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Pluto16:07

♀︎Venus stations retrograde21:20

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Uranus00:38

☿︎Mercury stations direct11:45

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●︎New Moon 8°01' Capricorn16:57

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None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 22°08' Gemini14 Dec · 02:37
  • ●︎New Moon 8°01' Capricorn29 Dec · 16:57

  • ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius12 Dec · 04:38
  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into SagittariusRx13 Dec · 18:05
  • ♂︎Mars enters Aquarius18 Dec · 06:36
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 20:06

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 3°22' Capricorn · opens a 20-day retrograde07 Dec · 16:52
  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 13°32' Aries · closes the 137-day retrograde16 Dec · 10:29
  • ♀︎Venus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 3°56' Aquarius · opens a 41-day retrograde26 Dec · 21:20
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 17°03' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde27 Dec · 11:45

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 20:07

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 conjunction NeptuneMars 28°23' Capricorn · Neptune 28°23' Capricorn16 Dec · 05:18
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile PlutoMars 6°34' Aquarius · Pluto 6°34' Sagittarius26 Dec · 16:07
  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction UranusMars 6°51' Aquarius · Uranus 6°51' Aquarius27 Dec · 00:38

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.