Astro calendar
The sky in 1956
Retrogrades, lunations and the Sun's sign changes, worked out for the whole year.
Retrogrades in 1956
Mercury retrograde 3 periods
- From January 18 to February 8 · from Aquarius to Capricorn
- From May 14 to June 7 · Gemini
- From September 13 to October 5 · from Libra to Virgo
Venus retrograde one period
- From May 31 to July 13 · from Cancer to Gemini
Mars retrograde one period
- From August 10 to October 10 · Pisces
Month by month
January
- New moon in Capricorn
- Mercury stations retrograde in Aquarius
- The Sun enters Aquarius
- Full moon in Leo
February
- Mercury stations direct in Capricorn
- New moon in Aquarius
- The Sun enters Pisces
- Full moon in Virgo
March
- New moon in Pisces
- The Sun enters Aries
- Full moon in Libra
April
- New moon in Aries
- The Sun enters Taurus
- Full moon in Scorpio
May
- New moon in Taurus
- Mercury stations retrograde in Gemini
- The Sun enters Gemini
- Full moon in Sagittarius
- Venus stations retrograde in Cancer
June
- Mercury stations direct in Gemini
- New moon in Gemini
- The Sun enters Cancer
- Full moon in Capricorn
July
- New moon in Cancer
- Venus stations direct in Gemini
- The Sun enters Leo
- Full moon in Aquarius
August
- New moon in Leo
- Mars stations retrograde in Pisces
- Full moon in Aquarius
- The Sun enters Virgo
September
- New moon in Virgo
- Mercury stations retrograde in Libra
- Full moon in Pisces
- The Sun enters Libra
October
- New moon in Libra
- Mercury stations direct in Virgo
- Mars stations direct in Pisces
- Full moon in Aries
- The Sun enters Scorpio
November
- New moon in Scorpio
- Full moon in Taurus
- The Sun enters Sagittarius
December
- New moon in Sagittarius
- Full moon in Gemini
- The Sun enters Capricorn
Dates and times in UTC. To see how this sky touches your chart, open your personal transits.