Transit calendar · Asteria

Collective transit calendar · 2016–2032

Ingresses, stations, eclipses, and moons. No chart required.

January 2016 · UTC

January 2016

25 events

A retrograde turn pulls things back for review, and 5 sign changes shift the collective tone, the lunations mark the month's open and close, a slow outer-planet aspect colours the backdrop.

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Upcoming transits · the agenda

2Jan · Sat
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Mercury enters Aquarius
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Mercury enters Aquarius.
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Mercury enters Aquarius, shifting speech, contracts, and timing in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius
2:20 AM
3Jan · Sun
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Mars enters Scorpio
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Mars enters Scorpio.
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Mars enters Scorpio, shifting drive, conflict, and heat in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius
2:32 PM
5Jan · Tue
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Mercury square Mars
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Mercury square Mars: the sky shifts.
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Mercury square Mars perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with drive, conflict, and heat.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius; Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo
12:00 PM
5Jan · Tue
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Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius
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Mercury stations Retrograde. Words, contracts, and timelines need patience.
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Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius, and the message layer wobbles. Delays, reversals, and second thoughts are normal, not personal sabotage.
Read twice. Send once. Back up what matters.
Sky context Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo
1:06 PM
5Jan · Tue
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Venus square Neptune
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Venus square Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Venus square Neptune perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius; Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo
2:33 PM
6Jan · Wed
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Pluto Cazimi
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Pluto Cazimi: heart-of-the-Sun clarity around power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
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Pluto meets the Sun in Cazimi, seated in the heart of the solar fire where a planet is briefly purified instead of burned. This is concentrated weather for power, depth, and what will not stay buried, not background noise.
Claim one clean truth and act on it before the window closes. Cazimi rewards backbone, not spectacle.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius; Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo
3:28 AM
7Jan · Thu
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Sun square Uranus
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Sun square Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Sun square Uranus perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius; Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo; New Moon in Capricorn
12:22 PM
8Jan · Fri
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Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo
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Jupiter stations Retrograde. Expansion gets reviewed before it scales.
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Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo, and the story of growth turns inward. What was inflation, performance, or borrowed confidence gets edited.
Keep what enlarges you ethically. Release what only made you loud.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius; New Moon in Capricorn
4:40 AM
8Jan · Fri
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Mercury re-enters Aquarius
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Mercury enters Aquarius.
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Mercury enters Aquarius, shifting speech, contracts, and timing in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Aquarius; Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo; New Moon in Capricorn
7:36 PM
9Jan · Sat
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Venus conjunction Saturn
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Venus conjunction Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Venus conjunction Saturn perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo; New Moon in Capricorn
4:11 AM
10Jan · Sun
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* New Moon in Capricorn
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New Moon in Capricorn: plant one real intention around structure and earned authority.
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The sky goes dark in Capricorn, and that is not emptiness. It is the month's reset around structure and earned authority. New Moons are the inhale: the seed is underground, but the body already knows.
This New Moon asks you to build what will still stand next year. Do not renovate your whole life overnight. Pick one sentence you can repeat for two weeks and let the feeling arrive before the spreadsheet does.
Deep dive
Think of the weight you chose to carry. That image is the architecture under the mood. New Moons in Capricorn reward honesty about desire, not performance about ambition.
Gravity and hope: if the intention still matters at the Full Moon, it was real. If it fades, you just saved yourself a longer detour.
Sky context Jupiter stations Retrograde in Virgo
1:30 AM
13Jan · Wed
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Venus trine Uranus
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Venus trine Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Venus trine Uranus perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Capricorn
12:11 AM
13Jan · Wed
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Sun trine Jupiter
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Sun trine Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Sun trine Jupiter perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Capricorn
10:49 PM
14Jan · Thu
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Mercury Cazimi
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Mercury Cazimi: heart-of-the-Sun clarity around speech, contracts, and timing.
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Mercury meets the Sun in Cazimi, seated in the heart of the solar fire where a planet is briefly purified instead of burned. This is concentrated weather for speech, contracts, and timing, not background noise.
Claim one clean truth and act on it before the window closes. Cazimi rewards backbone, not spectacle.
2:05 PM
15Jan · Fri
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Mercury trine Jupiter
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Mercury trine Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Mercury trine Jupiter perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
2:15 AM
18Jan · Mon
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Venus square Jupiter
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Venus square Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Venus square Jupiter perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
5:10 AM
18Jan · Mon
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Mars trine Neptune
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Mars trine Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Mars trine Neptune perfects, pulling drive, conflict, and heat into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
11:01 AM
20Jan · Wed
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Sun enters Aquarius
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Sun enters Aquarius.
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Sun enters Aquarius, shifting identity and visibility in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
3:27 PM
20Jan · Wed
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Mercury square Uranus
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Mercury square Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Mercury square Uranus perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
6:26 PM
22Jan · Fri
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Mercury conjunction Pluto
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Mercury conjunction Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Mercury conjunction Pluto perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Full Moon in Leo; Mercury stations direct in Capricorn
9:59 AM
23Jan · Sat
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Venus enters Capricorn
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Venus enters Capricorn.
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Venus enters Capricorn, shifting love, money, and what you are willing to keep in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Full Moon in Leo; Mercury stations direct in Capricorn
8:32 PM
24Jan · Sun
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* Full Moon in Leo
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Full Moon in Leo: visibility and heart reaches the surface. Look without flinching.
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The Moon fills in Leo, and Full Moons do not whisper. Whatever you built around visibility and heart is visible now. You may get clarity, or you may get the bill for what you kept semi-dark on purpose.
Use this Full Moon to separate completion from theater. Celebrate what is actually ripe. Release what only looked finished because you were tired of carrying it.
Deep dive
Keep the light you refuse to dim nearby. Full Moons in Leo expose where you stayed loyal to a version of the story that no longer fits your spine.
Illumination is information, not indictment. What you integrate now becomes usable strength by the next New Moon.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Capricorn
1:45 AM
25Jan · Mon
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Mercury stations direct in Capricorn
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Mercury stations direct. The stalled sentence can land.
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Mercury stations direct in Capricorn, and communication unclogs. The conversation, contract, or plan you kept revising is ready to move.
Say it plainly. Sign what is true. Travel with margin anyway.
Sky context Full Moon in Leo
9:50 PM
30Jan · Sat
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Mercury conjunction Pluto
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Mercury conjunction Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Mercury conjunction Pluto perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
5:58 AM
30Jan · Sat
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Venus sextile Neptune
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Venus sextile Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Venus sextile Neptune perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
4:44 PM