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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 Aquarius22:18

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●︎New Moon 15°32' Sagittarius22:31

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde17:00

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♃︎△︎Jupiter trine Neptune19:29

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Geminids peak

♂︎Mars stations retrograde20:17

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♄︎Saturn stations direct23:53

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☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Sagittarius14:07

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☉︎December solstice03:51

☉︎Sun enters Capricorn03:51

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○︎Full Moon 0°55' Cancer01:34

☽︎Penumbral lunar eclipse 1° Cancer01:47

Ursids peak

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Jupiter14:05

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☿︎Mercury stations direct12:30

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  • ☽︎Penumbral lunar eclipse 1° CancerMoon 1°02' Cancer opposite the Sun 0°55' Capricorn · north node · penumbral shadow only22 Dec · 01:47

  • ●︎New Moon 15°32' Sagittarius06 Dec · 22:31
  • ○︎Full Moon 0°55' Cancer22 Dec · 01:34

  • ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius05 Dec · 22:18
  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into SagittariusRx19 Dec · 14:07
  • ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 03:51

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 6°58' Capricorn · opens a 20-day retrograde10 Dec · 17:00
  • ♂︎Mars stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 14°28' Leo · opens a 80-day retrograde14 Dec · 20:17
  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 15°49' Aries · closes the 137-day retrograde17 Dec · 23:53
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 20°39' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde30 Dec · 12:30

Equinoxes and solstices

  • ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn21 Dec · 03:51

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

  • ♃︎△︎Jupiter trine NeptuneJupiter 10°09' Aquarius · Neptune 10°09' Gemini Rx11 Dec · 19:29
  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition JupiterMars 13°22' Leo Rx · Jupiter 13°22' Aquarius27 Dec · 14:05

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.