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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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♀︎Venus stations direct04:16

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4
5

♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Saturn17:52

6

♂︎Mars enters Leo01:12

Eta Aquariids peak

7
8

Eta Lyrids peak

9

♄︎Saturn stations retrograde16:21

10

☿︎Mercury enters Gemini16:33

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13
14

●︎New Moon 23°38' Taurus16:54

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16
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♇︎Pluto stations direct04:24

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19

♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Jupiter11:42

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21

☉︎Sun enters Gemini07:21

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23

♂︎□︎Mars square Neptune15:21

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25

♃︎Jupiter stations retrograde18:35

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27
28

☿︎Mercury enters Cancer17:23

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30

○︎Full Moon 8°32' Sagittarius04:37

31

None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 23°38' Taurus14 May · 16:54
  • ○︎Full Moon 8°32' Sagittarius30 May · 04:37

  • ♂︎Mars enters Leo06 May · 01:12
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini10 May · 16:33
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini21 May · 07:21
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Cancer28 May · 17:23

  • ♀︎Venus stations directstandstill at 12°44' Aries · closes the 42-day retrograde02 May · 04:16
  • ♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 29°51' Capricorn · opens a 141-day retrograde09 May · 16:21
  • ♇︎Pluto stations directstandstill at 5°32' Virgo · closes the 158-day retrograde17 May · 04:24
  • ♃︎Jupiter stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 7°09' Aquarius · opens a 121-day retrograde25 May · 18:35

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

  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition SaturnMars 29°50' Cancer · Saturn 29°50' Capricorn05 May · 17:52
  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition JupiterMars 7°05' Leo · Jupiter 7°05' Aquarius19 May · 11:42
  • ♂︎□︎Mars square NeptuneMars 9°20' Leo · Neptune 9°20' Scorpio Rx23 May · 15:21

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.