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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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♅︎□︎Uranus square Neptune11:51

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Eta Aquariids peak

7

♇︎Pluto stations direct19:58

8

♀︎Venus enters Cancer02:16

Eta Lyrids peak

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10

●︎New Moon 19°50' Taurus13:04

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♄︎Saturn retrogrades into Scorpio03:46

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde12:14

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini02:12

22

♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Jupiter15:39

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♄︎△︎Saturn trine Uranus07:36

○︎Full Moon 3°25' Sagittarius15:26

☽︎Partial lunar eclipse 3° Sagittarius15:31

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Pluto14:49

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♂︎△︎Mars trine Neptune20:09

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♀︎Venus stations retrograde18:03

♂︎□︎Mars square Saturn23:28

  • ☽︎Partial lunar eclipse 3° SagittariusMoon 3°27' Sagittarius opposite the Sun 3°24' Gemini · north node · 99% of the Moon's disc in the umbra24 May · 15:31

  • ●︎New Moon 19°50' Taurus10 May · 13:04
  • ○︎Full Moon 3°25' Sagittarius24 May · 15:26

  • ♀︎Venus enters Cancer08 May · 02:16
  • ♄︎Saturn retrogrades into ScorpioRx14 May · 03:46
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini21 May · 02:12

  • ♇︎Pluto stations directstandstill at 26°05' Leo · closes the 159-day retrograde07 May · 19:58
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 8°52' Gemini · opens a 24-day retrograde14 May · 12:14
  • ♀︎Venus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 9°01' Cancer · opens a 43-day retrograde31 May · 18:03

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Eta Aquariids peakup to 50 an hour under a dark sky · comet 1P/Halley06 May
  • ·Eta Lyrids peakup to 3 an hour under a dark sky · comet C/1983 H1 IRAS-Araki-Alcock08 May

  • ♅︎□︎Uranus square NeptuneUranus 28°37' Cancer · Neptune 28°37' Libra Rx05 May · 11:51
  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition JupiterMars 23°17' Aquarius · Jupiter 23°17' Leo22 May · 15:39
  • ♄︎△︎Saturn trine UranusSaturn 29°14' Scorpio Rx · Uranus 29°14' Cancer24 May · 07:36
  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition PlutoMars 26°11' Aquarius · Pluto 26°11' Leo27 May · 14:49
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine NeptuneMars 28°02' Aquarius · Neptune 28°02' Libra Rx30 May · 20:09
  • ♂︎□︎Mars square SaturnMars 28°40' Aquarius · Saturn 28°40' Scorpio Rx31 May · 23:28

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.