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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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♀︎Venus enters Aquarius23:36

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♂︎□︎Mars square Uranus06:50

☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn10:12

○︎Full Moon 21°02' Gemini16:37

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Geminids peak

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♂︎□︎Mars square Saturn22:46

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Neptune14:15

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn12:03

☉︎December solstice12:03

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Ursids peak

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♂︎Mars enters Capricorn07:30

●︎New Moon 6°08' Capricorn12:23

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Pluto20:01

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♄︎Saturn stations retrograde18:08

None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 21°02' Gemini12 Dec · 16:37
  • ●︎New Moon 6°08' Capricorn27 Dec · 12:23

  • ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius07 Dec · 23:36
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn12 Dec · 10:12
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 12:03
  • ♂︎Mars enters Capricorn27 Dec · 07:30

  • ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 21°46' Virgo · opens a 136-day retrograde31 Dec · 18:08

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 12:03

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 square UranusMars 18°49' Sagittarius · Uranus 18°49' Pisces12 Dec · 06:50
  • ♂︎□︎Mars square SaturnMars 21°32' Sagittarius · Saturn 21°32' Virgo15 Dec · 22:46
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile NeptuneMars 22°00' Sagittarius · Neptune 22°00' Aquarius16 Dec · 14:15
  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction PlutoMars 1°08' Capricorn · Pluto 1°08' Capricorn28 Dec · 20:01

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.