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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☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio16:40

●︎New Moon 14°27' Libra00:41

Draconids peak

♃︎Jupiter stations retrograde02:56

♀︎Venus enters Libra15:27

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Uranus11:29

Orionids peak

○︎Full Moon 28°50' Aries12:56

♄︎Saturn enters Scorpio15:34

☉︎Sun enters Scorpio17:06

♂︎□︎Mars square Jupiter14:00

♅︎Uranus stations retrograde14:19

☿︎Mercury enters Sagittarius15:48

None this month.

●︎New Moon 14°27' Libra08 Oct · 00:41
○︎Full Moon 28°50' Aries22 Oct · 12:56

☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio04 Oct · 16:40
♀︎Venus enters Libra18 Oct · 15:27
♄︎Saturn enters Scorpio22 Oct · 15:34
☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 17:06
☿︎Mercury enters Sagittarius31 Oct · 15:48

♃︎Jupiter stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 26°28' Gemini · opens a 118-day retrograde15 Oct · 02:56
♅︎Uranus stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 23°06' Cancer · opens a 149-day retrograde29 Oct · 14:19

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

·Draconids peakup to 10 an hour under a dark sky · comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner08 Oct
·Orionids peakup to 20 an hour under a dark sky · comet 1P/Halley21 Oct

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile UranusMars 23°04' Virgo · Uranus 23°04' Cancer21 Oct · 11:29
♂︎□︎Mars square JupiterMars 26°15' Virgo · Jupiter 26°15' Gemini Rx26 Oct · 14:00

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.