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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.

‹ September 1968

October 1968

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☿︎Mercury stations retrograde11:36

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☽︎Total lunar eclipse 13° Aries11:41

○︎Full Moon 13°17' Aries11:46

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☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Libra22:45

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Draconids peak

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♃︎☌︎Jupiter conjunction Pluto05:10

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♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile Neptune22:06

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♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius05:16

Orionids peak

●︎New Moon 28°33' Libra21:44

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☉︎Sun enters Scorpio08:29

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☿︎Mercury stations direct14:19

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♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction Pluto18:45

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  • ☽︎Total lunar eclipse 13° AriesMoon 13°14' Aries opposite the Sun 13°16' Libra · north node · 64 minutes of totality06 Oct · 11:41

  • ○︎Full Moon 13°17' Aries06 Oct · 11:46
  • ●︎New Moon 28°33' Libra21 Oct · 21:44

  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into LibraRx07 Oct · 22:45
  • ♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius21 Oct · 05:16
  • ☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 08:29

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 1°15' Scorpio · opens a 21-day retrograde03 Oct · 11:36
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 15°42' Libra · closes the 21-day retrograde24 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

  • ♃︎☌︎Jupiter conjunction PlutoJupiter 23°39' Virgo · Pluto 23°39' Virgo13 Oct · 05:10
  • ♃︎⚹︎Jupiter sextile NeptuneJupiter 25°13' Virgo · Neptune 25°13' Scorpio20 Oct · 22:06
  • ♂︎☌︎Mars conjunction PlutoMars 24°12' Virgo · Pluto 24°12' Virgo30 Oct · 18:45

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.