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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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○︎Full Moon 11°48' Scorpio23:41

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4

☿︎Mercury enters Gemini19:40

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6

Eta Aquariids peak

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8

Eta Lyrids peak

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10
11
12
13
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15

●︎New Moon 25°16' Taurus22:11

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17

♀︎Venus enters Cancer16:26

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20

☉︎Sun enters Gemini19:56

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22

♂︎Mars enters Pisces07:41

♀︎Venus stations retrograde13:25

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Uranus13:36

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24

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn02:48

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27

♅︎Uranus retrogrades into Sagittarius01:16

♀︎Venus retrogrades into Gemini07:35

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31

○︎Full Moon 10°12' Sagittarius10:54

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde22:45

None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 11°48' Scorpio01 May · 23:41
  • ●︎New Moon 25°16' Taurus15 May · 22:11
  • ○︎Full Moon 10°12' Sagittarius31 May · 10:54

  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini04 May · 19:40
  • ♀︎Venus enters Cancer17 May · 16:26
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 19:56
  • ♂︎Mars enters Pisces22 May · 07:41
  • ♅︎Uranus retrogrades into SagittariusRx27 May · 01:16
  • ♀︎Venus retrogrades into GeminiRx27 May · 07:35

  • ♀︎Venus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 0°27' Cancer · opens a 43-day retrograde22 May · 13:25
  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 26°47' Gemini · opens a 24-day retrograde31 May · 22:45

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 sextile UranusMars 0°09' Pisces · Uranus 0°09' Capricorn Rx22 May · 13:36
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 1°08' Pisces · Saturn 1°08' Capricorn Rx24 May · 02:48

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.