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 enters Aquarius19:40

Quadrantids peak

●︎New Moon 17°29' Capricorn19:22

♀︎Venus enters Capricorn18:07

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde01:43

♂︎Mars enters Taurus08:11

☉︎Sun enters Aquarius02:06

♃︎Jupiter stations direct06:13

○︎Full Moon 1°50' Leo21:34

♂︎△︎Mars trine Uranus21:57

☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Capricorn04:05

None this month.

●︎New Moon 17°29' Capricorn07 Jan · 19:22
○︎Full Moon 1°50' Leo21 Jan · 21:34

☿︎Mercury enters Aquarius02 Jan · 19:40
♀︎Venus enters Capricorn10 Jan · 18:07
♂︎Mars enters Taurus19 Jan · 08:11
☉︎Sun enters Aquarius20 Jan · 02:06
☿︎Mercury retrogrades into CapricornRx29 Jan · 04:05

☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 11°53' Aquarius · opens a 21-day retrograde16 Jan · 01:43
♃︎Jupiter stations directstandstill at 26°05' Taurus · closes the 118-day retrograde20 Jan · 06:13

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

·Quadrantids peakup to 110 an hour under a dark sky · asteroid 2003 EH103 Jan

♂︎△︎Mars trine UranusMars 3°07' Taurus · Uranus 3°07' Capricorn24 Jan · 21:57

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.