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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 Sagittarius09:13

♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Uranus10:05

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♃︎△︎Jupiter trine Neptune02:19

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde07:30

○︎Full Moon 11°40' Gemini15:47

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn21:20

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♂︎Mars enters Scorpio08:58

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Geminids peak

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●︎New Moon 26°31' Sagittarius06:31

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♄︎Saturn enters Capricorn04:48

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☉︎Sun enters Capricorn16:28

☉︎December solstice16:28

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Ursids peak

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☿︎Mercury stations direct01:55

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♀︎Venus enters Capricorn05:25

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Neptune05:58

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None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 11°40' Gemini03 Dec · 15:47
  • ●︎New Moon 26°31' Sagittarius18 Dec · 06:31

  • ♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius01 Dec · 09:13
  • ♂︎Mars enters Scorpio09 Dec · 08:58
  • ♄︎Saturn enters Capricorn20 Dec · 04:48
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 16:28
  • ♀︎Venus enters Capricorn25 Dec · 05:25

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 29°18' Sagittarius · opens a 20-day retrograde03 Dec · 07:30
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 13°00' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde23 Dec · 01:55

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 16:28

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 opposition UranusMars 25°00' Libra · Uranus 25°00' Aries Rx01 Dec · 10:05
  • ♃︎△︎Jupiter trine NeptuneJupiter 11°29' Scorpio · Neptune 11°29' Pisces03 Dec · 02:19
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 28°26' Libra · Saturn 28°26' Sagittarius06 Dec · 21:20
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine NeptuneMars 11°49' Scorpio · Neptune 11°49' Pisces28 Dec · 05:58

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.