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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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♄︎☍︎Saturn opposition Uranus13:18

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Neptune10:03

Eta Aquariids peak

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Eta Lyrids peak

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Jupiter01:41

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☿︎Mercury stations direct04:50

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●︎New Moon 24°36' Taurus16:06

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♂︎☍︎Mars opposition Uranus03:49

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Saturn04:48

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☉︎Sun enters Gemini06:41

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♀︎Venus enters Gemini15:36

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○︎Full Moon 8°27' Sagittarius01:58

♃︎Jupiter stations retrograde15:43

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None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 24°36' Taurus14 May · 16:06
  • ○︎Full Moon 8°27' Sagittarius29 May · 01:58

  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 06:41
  • ♀︎Venus enters Gemini21 May · 15:36

  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 3°47' Taurus · closes the 24-day retrograde12 May · 04:50
  • ♃︎Jupiter stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 11°49' Aquarius · opens a 121-day retrograde29 May · 15:43

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

  • ♄︎☍︎Saturn opposition UranusSaturn 16°19' Aries · Uranus 16°19' Libra Rx02 May · 13:18
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile NeptuneMars 8°25' Aries · Neptune 8°25' Gemini06 May · 10:03
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile JupiterMars 11°13' Aries · Jupiter 11°13' Aquarius10 May · 01:41
  • ♂︎☍︎Mars opposition UranusMars 15°52' Aries · Uranus 15°52' Libra Rx16 May · 03:49
  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction SaturnMars 18°11' Aries · Saturn 18°11' Aries19 May · 04:48

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.