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Celestial Calendar

About 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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♂︎Mars enters Scorpio20:01

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Draconids peak

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●︎New Moon 16°14' Libra18:53

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde22:38

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♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Pluto10:35

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Neptune01:05

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♀︎Venus enters Libra02:58

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Orionids peak

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☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Libra02:29

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☉︎Sun enters Scorpio15:47

○︎Full Moon 0°14' Taurus21:31

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☿︎Mercury stations direct18:03

None this month.

  • ●︎New Moon 16°14' Libra09 Oct · 18:53
  • ○︎Full Moon 0°14' Taurus23 Oct · 21:31

  • ♂︎Mars enters Scorpio01 Oct · 20:01
  • ♀︎Venus enters Libra18 Oct · 02:58
  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into LibraRx22 Oct · 02:29
  • ☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 15:47

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 8°01' Scorpio · opens a 21-day retrograde10 Oct · 22:38
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 22°18' Libra · closes the 21-day retrograde31 Oct · 18:03

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 PlutoMars 9°17' Scorpio · Pluto 9°17' Virgo15 Oct · 10:35
  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction NeptuneMars 10°23' Scorpio · Neptune 10°23' Scorpio17 Oct · 01:05

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.