Important Dates for 2023
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This is a listing of important ingress/egress (when a planet moves into and out of a particular sign), as well as all retrograde and direct movements, New Moons and Full Moons.
Dates and times are based on EST.
January 2 Venus into Aquarius
January 6 Full Moon 16° 22’ Cancer at 6:08 pm.
January 12 Mars Stationary Direct at 8 degrees of Gemini
January 18 Mercury Stationary Direct at 8 degrees of Capricorn
January 20 Sun into Aquarius.
January 21 New Moon 1° 33’ Aquarius at 3:53 pm.
January 22 Uranus Stationary Direct at 14 degrees of Taurus
January 26 Venus into Pisces.
February 5 Full Moon at 16° 40’ Leo at 1:29 pm
February 11 Mercury in Aquarius.
February 18 Sun into Pisces.
February 20 New Moon at 1° 22’ Pisces at 2:06 am.; Venus into Aries.
February 25 Jupiter and Chiron come within two degrees
(Jupiter at 11 Aries/Chiron 13 Aries); precise conjunct March 10-19
March 2 Mercury into Pisces.
March 7 Saturn to zero degrees of Pisces;
Full Moon at 16° 40’ Virgo at 7:40 am.
March 16 Venus into Taurus.
March 19 Mercury into Aries.
March 20 Sun into Aries.
March 21 New Moon 0° 50’ Aries at 1:23 pm
March 23 Pluto to zero degrees of Aquarius at 8:13 am.
March 25 Mars into Cancer; Saturn at two degrees Pisces gets within
2 degree trine to SN sextile to NN at 4 degrees Taurus/Scorpio.
Precise trine at 4 degrees April 14 to 24; within 3 degrees until June 1.
April 3 Mercury into Taurus.
April 6 Full Moon 16° 7’ Libra at 12:34 am.
April 11 Venus into Gemini.
April 20 Sun into Taurus; New Moon Solar Eclipse at 29° 49’ Aries at 12:13 am.
April 21 Mercury Stationary Rx at 15 degrees of Taurus
May 1 Pluto Stationary Rx at zero degrees 21.8 minutes of Aquarius
May 5 Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 14° 58’ Scorpio at 1:34 pm.
May 7 Venus into Cancer
May 11 Pluto/Neptune sextile until mid-October;
Pluto square Jupiter till early June.
May 14 Mercury Stationary Direct at 5 degrees of Taurus
May 16 Jupiter into Taurus
May 19 New Moon at 28° 25’ Taurus at 11:53 am.
May 20 Mars into Leo; Jupiter North Node in Taurus conjunction at 1 to 3
degrees precise conjunction both at 3 degrees on May 30-June 3.
May 21 Sun into Gemini.
June 1 We begin to pick up Pluto square to the Nodes by 3 degrees.
June 3 Full Moon at 13° 17’ Sagittarius at 11:42 pm.
June 5 Venus into Leo.
June 8 Saturn in Pisces sextile to Jupiter in Aries;
exact June 18-23. Saturn Rx out of the square.
June 11 Pluto Rx back into the sign of Capricorn; Mercury into Gemini.
June 17 Saturn Stationary Retrograde at 7 degrees of Pisces
June 18 New Moon at 26° 42’ Gemini at 12:37 am.
June 21 Sun into Cancer
June 26 Mercury into Cancer
June 30 Neptune Stationary Rx at 27 degrees of Pisces
July 3 Full Moon at 11° 18’ Capricorn at 7:39 am.
July 10 Mars into Virgo.
July 11 Mercury into Leo
July 17 New Moon at 24° 56’ Cancer at 2:32 pm.
July 17 True Node Rx to 29 degrees of Aries/South Node to 29 degrees Libra;
both square to Pluto at 29 Capricorn; exact degree and minute July 22.
Stay within three degrees until November
July 22 Sun into Leo; Venus Stationary Rx at 28 degrees of Leo
July 28 Mercury into Virgo.
August 1 Full Moon at 9° 16’ Aquarius at 2:32 pm.
August 16 New Moon at 23° 17’ Leo at 5:38 am.
August 23 Sun into Virgo; Mercury Stations Rx at 21 degrees of Virgo
August 27 Mars into Libra
August 28 Uranus Stations Rx at 23 degrees of Taurus.
August 30 Full Moon at 7° 25’ Pisces at 9:36 pm.
September 3 Venus Stations Direct at 12 degrees of Leo.
September 4 Jupiter Stations Rx at 15 degrees of Taurus.
September 14 New Moon at 21° 59’ of Virgo at 9:40 pm.
September 15 Mercury stations Direct at 8 degrees of Virgo.
September 23 Sun into Libra
September 29 Full Moon at 6° Aries at 5:58 am.
October 4 Mercury into Libra
October 8 Venus into Virgo
October 10 Pluto Stations Direct at 27 degrees of Capricorn
October 12 Mars into Scorpio
October 14 New Moon Solar Eclipse at 21° 7’ of Libra at 1:55 pm.
October 22 Mercury into Scorpio
October 23 Sun into Scorpio
October 28 Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 5° 9’ Taurus at 4:24 pm.
November 4 Saturn Stations Direct at 0 degrees of Pisces
November 8 Venus into Libra
November 10 Mercury into Sagittarius
November 13 New Moon at 20° 44’ Scorpio at 4:27 am.
November 22 Sun into Sagittarius
November 24 Mars into Sagittarius
November 27 Full Moon at 4° 51’ of Gemini at 4:16 am.
December 1 Mercury into Capricorn
December 4 Venus into Scorpio
December 6 Neptune Stations Direct at 24 Pisces.
December 12 New Moon at 20° 40’ of Sagittarius at 6:32 pm.
December 13 Mercury Stations Rx at 8 degrees of Capricorn
December 21 Sun into Capricorn;
Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter in Taurus begin a wide sextile.
December 23 Mercury into Sagittarius
December 27 Full Moon at 4° 58’ at 7:33 pm.
December 29 Venus into Sagittarius
December 30 Jupiter Stations Direct at 5 degrees of Taurus.