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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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♀︎Venus enters Virgo03:21

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♆︎Neptune stations direct15:55

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Draconids peak

9

☿︎Mercury enters Libra03:13

10

♅︎Uranus stations direct00:54

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☉︎Partial solar eclipse 19° Libra14:02

●︎New Moon 19°32' Libra14:15

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Orionids peak

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☉︎Sun enters Scorpio03:18

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♄︎△︎Saturn trine Pluto03:03

○︎Full Moon 3°26' Taurus14:11

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☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio01:00

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29

♀︎Venus enters Libra12:01

30

♂︎Mars enters Virgo07:12

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  • ☉︎Partial solar eclipse 19° LibraSun 19°31' Libra · Moon 19°25' Libra · north node · partial everywhere it is seen12 Oct · 14:02

  • ●︎New Moon 19°32' Libra12 Oct · 14:15
  • ○︎Full Moon 3°26' Taurus26 Oct · 14:11

  • ♀︎Venus enters Virgo04 Oct · 03:21
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Libra09 Oct · 03:13
  • ☉︎Sun enters Scorpio23 Oct · 03:18
  • ☿︎Mercury enters Scorpio27 Oct · 01:00
  • ♀︎Venus enters Libra29 Oct · 12:01
  • ♂︎Mars enters Virgo30 Oct · 07:12

  • ♆︎Neptune stations directstandstill at 24°58' Capricorn · closes the 160-day retrograde06 Oct · 15:55
  • ♅︎Uranus stations directstandstill at 0°38' Aquarius · closes the 154-day retrograde10 Oct · 00:54

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 trine PlutoSaturn 1°51' Aries Rx · Pluto 1°51' Sagittarius26 Oct · 03:03

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.