What the calendar lists
Four kinds of dated event fill the timeline. A sign ingress is the instant a planet crosses from one zodiac sign into the next — the boundary that changes which 'background' it is transiting. A station is the moment a planet appears to halt and reverse (stations retrograde) or halt and resume (stations direct), the pivot of every retrograde period. New and full moons are the exact syzygies where the Moon and Sun align or oppose.
Sign ingresses are listed for Mercury through Pluto. The Sun and Moon change signs too quickly to list sensibly at a daily resolution — the Moon crosses into a new sign roughly every 2.5 days — so we surface them only through their far more meaningful new and full moons.
How we compute it
Every entry is a true ephemeris crossing, not a table of approximations. We step the sub-arcsecond astronomy (VSOP87/ELP via astronomy-engine) positions day by day across the chosen year and record the first day each planet's sign changes, the day each planet's daily motion flips sign (its station), and the exact instant the Moon–Sun elongation hits 0° (new) or 180° (full).
Dates are given in UTC to the day. Because the site is a browser tool, the whole calendar recomputes instantly when you change the year — nothing is fetched or stored.
What you get
Pick a year and the calendar shows, grouped month by month:
- Every planetary sign ingress (Mercury through Pluto) with the sign it enters.
- Every retrograde and direct station, colour-coded, with the planet and the sign it turns in.
- Every new and full moon with its sign — the exact lunation instants.
- A running count of the year's dated sky events at the top of the list.
Using the calendar for your own transits
This is a sky clock, not a personal forecast — it tells you where the planets are, not what they mean for you. To make it personal, cast your natal chart and note your planets' degrees and signs: when this calendar shows a planet ingressing into one of those signs, or stationing near a degree you have planets on, that is a transit worth reflecting on. Our natal and transit tools then compute the exact aspect from the moving sky to your chart.
Stations are the most useful markers: a planet that stations retrograde has been slowing for weeks and will linger on its degree for the whole retrograde season, so it 'revisits' whatever natal placement sits there far more emphatically than a fast flyby.
Ingresses, by contrast, matter mainly for the slow planets: when Saturn, Jupiter or Pluto crosses into a new sign it stays there for months or years, redrawing the backdrop of a whole generation's chart. The faster planets ingress so often that their crossings read as background noise; it is the outer-planet moves that mark real chapters.
A worked example: October–November 2026
In autumn 2026 the sky stages a striking Venus–Mercury retrograde pairing. Venus stations retrograde on 4 October in Scorpio; a New Moon follows in Libra on 10 October; Pluto stations direct in Aquarius on 17 October; then Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio on 25 October. On 26 October Venus both ingresses into Libra and is joined by a Full Moon in Taurus — a same-day double marker.
The recovery runs into November: a New Moon in Scorpio on 9 November, Mercury stations direct in Scorpio on 14 November, Venus stations direct in Libra on 15 November, a Full Moon in Gemini on 24 November, and Mars ingresses Virgo on 26 November. Each of these dates is the exact ephemeris crossing at which the event happens, so you can verify any of them independently.
What this tool does not claim
It lists objective sky events only — positions, stations and lunations — and deliberately adds no interpretation, because interpretation is personal to your natal chart and belongs in the tools that compute your aspects. Ingresses and stations are detected to the nearest day at a daily scan resolution, which is plenty for a calendar view; a handful of borderline ingress moments could shift by a day around the exact crossing.
Astrological transits are a symbolic tradition with no scientific validation as predictors. The astronomy is exact and checkable; the 'meaning' is yours to reflect on. All computation runs locally.
Step by step
- 1
Choose a year
The whole almanac recomputes instantly from the ephemeris for the year you pick.
- 2
Scan the stations
Start with the colour-coded retrograde and direct stations — they mark the slow, lingering transits rather than the quick ones.
Tip — A planet that stations retrograde in a given sign will spend its whole retrograde season revisiting that sign's degrees — watch what natal planets sit there.
- 3
Note the lunations
New and full moons are the sky's monthly punctuation; every ingress near one tends to get read as a heightened moment.
- 4
Personalize it
Cast your natal chart and cross-reference the signs and degrees here to see which events actually transit your own placements.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a 'station' in astrology?
- The moment an apparent planet stops and changes direction. Earth's faster (or slower) orbit makes the outer planets seem to slow, halt, move backwards for a while, then halt again and resume — those two halts are the stations, and they are the most important transits of a retrograde cycle because the planet sits on that degree for weeks.
- What is a sign ingress?
- The instant a planet crosses from one zodiac sign into the next, changing the 'terrain' it is transiting. For slow planets like Jupiter or Saturn an ingress is a major, months-long shift (Saturn entering Aries, for instance, is treated as a generational turning point); for quick ones like Mercury it happens every few weeks.
- Why aren't the Sun and Moon shown entering each sign?
- The Sun changes signs about monthly and the Moon every two and a half days, so listing every one would bury the meaningful events. We include the Moon instead through its new and full phases — the exact syzygies astrologers actually watch — and the Sun through the seasons those lunations fall in.
- Are the dates in my local time?
- They are given in UTC to the day. A station or lunation right around midnight could fall on the previous or next day in your own timezone, so for a borderline date check the hour against your local zone.
- Is this the same as a personal transit reading?
- No — this is the raw sky calendar everyone shares. A personal transit reading needs your natal chart to see which of these movements actually aspect your planets and houses. Use this for 'where is the sky turning', then the natal and transit tools for 'what that means for me'.
Written by
Elena Marchetti
Founder & Staff Astrologer
Methodology reviewed by
Dr. Amara Osei
Astronomy Reviewer
Published 2026-10-01 · Updated 2026-10-01 · Calculated with sub-arcsecond astronomy (VSOP87/ELP via astronomy-engine)