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 Scorpio20:11

♄︎□︎Saturn square Pluto12:57

Draconids peak

♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius08:07

○︎Full Moon 18°39' Aries03:09

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Saturn13:47

♄︎Saturn stations retrograde05:50

♂︎□︎Mars square Jupiter16:11

Orionids peak

☉︎Sun enters Scorpio13:30

●︎New Moon 2°34' Scorpio03:17

♂︎Mars retrogrades into Aries22:55

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde10:25

None this month.

○︎Full Moon 18°39' Aries12 Oct · 03:09
●︎New Moon 2°34' Scorpio26 Oct · 03:17

☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio02 Oct · 20:11
♀︎Venus enters Sagittarius09 Oct · 08:07
☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 13:30
♂︎Mars retrogrades into AriesRx29 Oct · 22:55

♄︎Saturn stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 4°45' Cancer · opens a 134-day retrograde17 Oct · 05:50
☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 26°36' Scorpio · opens a 20-day retrograde30 Oct · 10:25

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 4°40' Cancer · Pluto 4°40' Libra07 Oct · 12:57
♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile SaturnMars 4°45' Taurus Rx · Saturn 4°45' Cancer15 Oct · 13:47
♂︎□︎Mars square JupiterMars 3°04' Taurus Rx · Jupiter 3°04' Aquarius20 Oct · 16:11

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.