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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●︎New Moon 10°55' Libra04:25

☿︎Mercury stations direct14:21

♀︎Venus enters Virgo03:12

♄︎□︎Saturn square Pluto15:38

Draconids peak

♂︎Mars stations direct10:06

♄︎Saturn enters Sagittarius15:10

☿︎Mercury enters Libra07:30

♆︎⚹︎Neptune sextile Pluto07:15

♆︎Neptune enters Scorpio09:24

○︎Full Moon 26°18' Aries17:25

♇︎Pluto enters Virgo06:19

Orionids peak

☉︎Sun enters Scorpio10:34

☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio08:18

♀︎Venus enters Libra19:39

None this month.

●︎New Moon 10°55' Libra04 Oct · 04:25
○︎Full Moon 26°18' Aries19 Oct · 17:25

♀︎Venus enters Virgo06 Oct · 03:12
♄︎Saturn enters Sagittarius10 Oct · 15:10
☿︎Mercury enters Libra11 Oct · 07:30
♆︎Neptune enters Scorpio19 Oct · 09:24
♇︎Pluto enters Virgo20 Oct · 06:19
☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 10:34
☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio31 Oct · 08:18
♀︎Venus enters Libra31 Oct · 19:39

☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 27°16' Virgo · closes the 22-day retrograde05 Oct · 14:21
♂︎Mars stations directstandstill at 13°09' Pisces · closes the 61-day retrograde10 Oct · 10:06

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

♄︎□︎Saturn square PlutoSaturn 29°42' Scorpio · Pluto 29°42' Leo07 Oct · 15:38
♆︎⚹︎Neptune sextile PlutoNeptune 29°57' Libra · Pluto 29°57' Leo18 Oct · 07:15

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.