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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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2

♂︎Mars enters Taurus18:15

3

○︎Full Moon 13°19' Scorpio11:48

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde22:42

4

♃︎Jupiter stations retrograde15:37

5
6

Eta Aquariids peak

7
8

Eta Lyrids peak

♅︎Uranus stations retrograde19:35

♂︎□︎Mars square Uranus21:01

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10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17

●︎New Moon 26°51' Taurus11:46

18
19

♄︎⚹︎Saturn sextile Uranus16:49

20

♀︎Venus stations retrograde06:07

☉︎Sun enters Gemini18:22

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22
23
24
25

♂︎△︎Mars trine Jupiter14:51

26
27

☿︎Mercury stations direct19:01

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30
31

None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 13°19' Scorpio03 May · 11:48
  • ●︎New Moon 26°51' Taurus17 May · 11:46

  • ♂︎Mars enters Taurus02 May · 18:15
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 18:22

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 28°38' Taurus · opens a 24-day retrograde03 May · 22:42
  • ♃︎Jupiter stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 17°39' Capricorn · opens a 122-day retrograde04 May · 15:37
  • ♅︎Uranus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 4°35' Aquarius · opens a 154-day retrograde08 May · 19:35
  • ♀︎Venus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 28°17' Gemini · opens a 43-day retrograde20 May · 06:07
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 19°38' Taurus · closes the 24-day retrograde27 May · 19:01

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 square UranusMars 4°35' Taurus · Uranus 4°35' Aquarius Rx08 May · 21:01
  • ♄︎⚹︎Saturn sextile UranusSaturn 4°32' Aries · Uranus 4°32' Aquarius Rx19 May · 16:49
  • ♂︎△︎Mars trine JupiterMars 16°58' Taurus · Jupiter 16°58' Capricorn Rx25 May · 14:51

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.