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Astrological calendar

April 1978

Every New and Full Moon, every eclipse with its Saros family, every retrograde and every sign change — in Brasília time, computed with precision ephemerides validated against NASA’s catalogue.

  1. 1 Saturday

    Mercury stations retrograde in Aries

    01:17 PM · Brasília time

    Seen from Earth, the planet stops and moves backwards: a period of review for the themes it rules. Retrograde is not punishment — it is the second pass over the same subject.

  2. 2 Sunday

    Venus enters Taurus

    06:12 PM · Brasília time

    A planet changes sign: the same function starts operating in another style. The theme does not change — the manner does.

  3. 7 Friday

    Eclipse Solar partial in Aries

    12:02 PM · Brasília time

    A New Moon with the nodal axis activated: the Moon covers the Sun. In the tradition, a restart of this size moves structure, not detail — and the effect is counted in months, not days.

    Saros 148 · previous in the series: March 1960

  4. 10 Monday

    Mars enters Leo

    03:51 PM · Brasília time

    A planet changes sign: the same function starts operating in another style. The theme does not change — the manner does.

  5. 11 Tuesday

    Jupiter enters Cancer

    09:18 PM · Brasília time

    A planet changes sign: the same function starts operating in another style. The theme does not change — the manner does.

  6. 15 Saturday

    First Quarter in Cancer

    10:56 AM · Brasília time

    A week after the seed, the first tension: what was planted meets the real world. It is a course correction, not a surrender.

  7. 20 Thursday

    Sun enters Taurus

    07:49 AM · Brasília time

    A planet changes sign: the same function starts operating in another style. The theme does not change — the manner does.

  8. 23 Sunday

    Full Moon in Scorpio

    01:11 AM · Brasília time

    Sun and Moon on opposite sides of the sky: maximum light on what had been growing. What was implicit becomes visible — in feeling, in outcome, in conversation.

  9. 25 Tuesday

    Mercury stations direct in Aries

    03:46 AM · Brasília time

    The planet stations and returns to direct motion: what was under review starts moving again, now with what was learned along the way.

    Saturn stations direct in Leo

    09:17 AM · Brasília time

    The planet stations and returns to direct motion: what was under review starts moving again, now with what was learned along the way.

  10. 27 Thursday

    Venus enters Gemini

    04:52 AM · Brasília time

    A planet changes sign: the same function starts operating in another style. The theme does not change — the manner does.

  11. 29 Saturday

    Last Quarter in Aquarius

    06:02 PM · Brasília time

    The light wanes: time to harvest what served and release what did not. A conscious closing before the next cycle.

What this means for your chart

The calendar is the same for everyone; the effect is not. Each event lands in a different house of your chart — and that is what changes what it asks of you.

See it in my chart

Instantes calculados em efeméride de precisão (validação pública na página de ciência). Séries de Saros do Five Millennium Canon, NASA/GSFC (Fred Espenak & Jean Meeus). Horários no fuso de Brasília.