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Astrological calendar

August 2011

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. 3 Wednesday

    Mercury stations retrograde in Virgo

    12:52 AM · 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.

    Mars enters Cancer

    06:21 AM · Brasília time

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

  2. 5 Friday

    Neptune enters Aquarius (retrograde)

    04:19 AM · Brasília time

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

  3. 6 Saturday

    First Quarter in Scorpio

    08:08 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.

  4. 8 Monday

    Mercury enters Leo (retrograde)

    06:47 AM · Brasília time

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

  5. 13 Saturday

    Full Moon in Aquarius

    03:58 PM · 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.

  6. 21 Sunday

    Last Quarter in Taurus

    06:55 PM · Brasília time

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

    Venus enters Virgo

    07:10 PM · Brasília time

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

  7. 23 Tuesday

    Sun enters Virgo

    08:20 AM · Brasília time

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

  8. 26 Friday

    Mercury stations direct in Leo

    06:58 PM · 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.

  9. 29 Monday

    New Moon in Virgo

    12:04 AM · Brasília time

    Sun and Moon meet at the same degree: one cycle closes and another begins in the dark. The classic moment to plant intention — not to harvest results.

  10. 30 Tuesday

    Jupiter stations retrograde in Taurus

    06:18 AM · 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.

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.

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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.