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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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♅︎Uranus stations direct07:05

☽︎Total lunar eclipse 18° Gemini14:31

○︎Full Moon 18°11' Gemini14:37

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☿︎Mercury stations direct01:47

Geminids peak

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♀︎Venus enters Aquarius18:26

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn05:30

☉︎December solstice05:30

Ursids peak

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●︎New Moon 2°34' Capricorn18:07

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♃︎Jupiter stations direct22:08

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  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 18° GeminiMoon 18°08' Gemini opposite the Sun 18°10' Sagittarius · south node · 52 minutes of totality10 Dec · 14:31

  • ○︎Full Moon 18°11' Gemini10 Dec · 14:37
  • ●︎New Moon 2°34' Capricorn24 Dec · 18:07

  • ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius20 Dec · 18:26
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 05:30

  • ♅︎Uranus stations directstandstill at 0°38' Aries · closes the 153-day retrograde10 Dec · 07:05
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 3°51' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde14 Dec · 01:47
  • ♃︎Jupiter stations directstandstill at 0°21' Taurus · closes the 118-day retrograde25 Dec · 22:08

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn22 Dec · 05:30

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

None this month.

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.