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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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♂︎△︎Mars trine Jupiter03:46

☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn21:17

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn12:15

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Uranus03:29

♀︎Venus enters Aquarius14:51

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○︎Full Moon 22°25' Gemini00:06

Geminids peak

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♂︎Mars enters Pisces09:22

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde10:51

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☉︎December solstice10:44

☉︎Sun enters Capricorn10:44

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Ursids peak

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♄︎△︎Saturn trine Uranus00:20

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♃︎☍︎Jupiter opposition Uranus18:34

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●︎New Moon 7°59' Capricorn06:53

♅︎Uranus stations direct09:29

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None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 22°25' Gemini14 Dec · 00:06
  • ●︎New Moon 7°59' Capricorn29 Dec · 06:53

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Capricorn02 Dec · 21:17
  • ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius07 Dec · 14:51
  • ♂︎Mars enters Pisces19 Dec · 09:22
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 10:44

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 15°07' Capricorn · opens a 20-day retrograde19 Dec · 10:51
  • ♅︎Uranus stations directstandstill at 20°33' Aries · closes the 153-day retrograde29 Dec · 09:29

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 10:44

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 17°01' Aquarius · Jupiter 17°01' Libra02 Dec · 03:46
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 18°02' Aquarius · Saturn 18°02' Sagittarius03 Dec · 12:15
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile UranusMars 20°46' Aquarius · Uranus 20°46' Aries Rx07 Dec · 03:29
  • ♄︎△︎Saturn trine UranusSaturn 20°33' Sagittarius · Uranus 20°33' Aries Rx25 Dec · 00:20
  • ♃︎☍︎Jupiter opposition UranusJupiter 20°33' Libra · Uranus 20°33' Aries Rx26 Dec · 18:34

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.