Celestial Calendar
About Celestial Calendar
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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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde22:14
♀︎Venus enters Aquarius13:09
♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Pluto06:46
♂︎Mars enters Scorpio19:12
♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile Saturn22:30
♆︎Neptune stations retrograde23:19
♅︎Uranus stations direct01:48
Geminids peak
●︎New Moon 23°52' Sagittarius20:06
☉︎December solstice20:46
☉︎Sun enters Capricorn20:46
☿︎Mercury stations direct16:36
Ursids peak
♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Neptune19:25
♄︎Saturn stations retrograde01:14
○︎Full Moon 8°38' Cancer08:23
♂︎△︎Mars trine Jupiter23:09
None this month.
- ●︎New Moon 23°52' Sagittarius14 Dec · 20:06
- ○︎Full Moon 8°38' Cancer29 Dec · 08:23
- ♀︎Venus enters Aquarius04 Dec · 13:09
- ♂︎Mars enters Scorpio06 Dec · 19:12
- ☉︎Sun enters Capricorn20 Dec · 20:46
- ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 28°49' Sagittarius · opens a 20-day retrograde01 Dec · 22:14
- ♆︎Neptune stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 10°44' Virgo · opens a 157-day retrograde11 Dec · 23:19
- ♅︎Uranus stations directstandstill at 5°46' Aries · closes the 153-day retrograde14 Dec · 01:48
- ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 12°31' Sagittarius · closes the 20-day retrograde21 Dec · 16:36
- ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 18°32' Virgo · opens a 136-day retrograde28 Dec · 01:14
Equinoxes and solstices
- ☉︎December solsticethe Sun enters Capricorn20 Dec · 20:46
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 PlutoMars 29°40' Libra · Pluto 29°40' Aries Rx06 Dec · 06:46
- ♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile SaturnJupiter 18°17' Cancer Rx · Saturn 18°17' Virgo11 Dec · 22:30
- ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile NeptuneMars 10°41' Scorpio · Neptune 10°41' Virgo Rx23 Dec · 19:25
- ♂︎△︎Mars trine JupiterMars 15°48' Scorpio · Jupiter 15°48' Cancer Rx31 Dec · 23:09
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.