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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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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Uranus16:50

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♂︎Mars enters Leo12:08

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Eta Aquariids peak

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Eta Lyrids peak

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☿︎Mercury enters Gemini13:51

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♂︎□︎Mars square Neptune04:59

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●︎New Moon 21°04' Taurus03:28

☉︎Partial solar eclipse 21° Taurus03:41

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn14:54

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♅︎Uranus enters Leo22:26

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♃︎Jupiter stations direct04:01

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini09:55

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♀︎Venus enters Gemini18:05

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☽︎Total lunar eclipse 5° Sagittarius11:44

○︎Full Moon 5°50' Sagittarius11:47

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♇︎Pluto stations retrograde12:35

☿︎Mercury enters Cancer20:43

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  • ☉︎Partial solar eclipse 21° TaurusSun 21°04' Taurus · Moon 21°10' Taurus · north node · partial everywhere it is seen11 May · 03:41
  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 5° SagittariusMoon 5°49' Sagittarius opposite the Sun 5°50' Gemini · south node · 93 minutes of totality26 May · 11:44

  • ●︎New Moon 21°04' Taurus11 May · 03:28
  • ○︎Full Moon 5°50' Sagittarius26 May · 11:47

  • ♂︎Mars enters Leo02 May · 12:08
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Gemini09 May · 13:51
  • ♅︎Uranus enters Leo15 May · 22:26
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 09:55
  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini22 May · 18:05
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Cancer27 May · 20:43

  • ♃︎Jupiter stations directstandstill at 21°52' Virgo · closes the 123-day retrograde18 May · 04:01
  • ♇︎Pluto stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 27°07' Aquarius · opens a 164-day retrograde27 May · 12:35

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 conjunction UranusMars 29°35' Cancer · Uranus 29°35' Cancer01 May · 16:50
  • ♂︎□︎Mars square NeptuneMars 3°56' Leo · Neptune 3°56' Taurus10 May · 04:59
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 5°43' Leo · Saturn 5°43' Libra Rx13 May · 14:54

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.