Astro calendar
The sky in 2012
Retrogrades, lunations and the Sun's sign changes, worked out for the whole year.
Retrogrades in 2012
Mercury retrograde 3 periods
- From March 12 to April 4 · from Aries to Pisces
- From July 15 to August 8 · Leo
- From November 6 to November 26 · from Sagittarius to Scorpio
Venus retrograde one period
- From May 15 to June 27 · Gemini
Mars retrograde one period
- From January 24 to April 14 · Virgo
Month by month
January
- Full moon in Cancer
- The Sun enters Aquarius
- New moon in Aquarius
- Mars stations retrograde in Virgo
February
- Full moon in Leo
- The Sun enters Pisces
- New moon in Pisces
March
- Full moon in Virgo
- Mercury stations retrograde in Aries
- The Sun enters Aries
- New moon in Aries
April
- Mercury stations direct in Pisces
- Full moon in Libra
- Mars stations direct in Virgo
- The Sun enters Taurus
- New moon in Taurus
May
- Full moon in Scorpio
- Venus stations retrograde in Gemini
- The Sun enters Gemini
- New moon in Gemini
June
- Full moon in Sagittarius
- New moon in Gemini
- The Sun enters Cancer
- Venus stations direct in Gemini
July
- Full moon in Capricorn
- Mercury stations retrograde in Leo
- New moon in Cancer
- The Sun enters Leo
August
- Full moon in Aquarius
- Mercury stations direct in Leo
- New moon in Leo
- The Sun enters Virgo
- Full moon in Pisces
September
- New moon in Virgo
- The Sun enters Libra
- Full moon in Aries
October
- New moon in Libra
- The Sun enters Scorpio
- Full moon in Taurus
November
- Mercury stations retrograde in Sagittarius
- New moon in Scorpio
- The Sun enters Sagittarius
- Mercury stations direct in Scorpio
- Full moon in Gemini
December
- New moon in Sagittarius
- The Sun enters Capricorn
- Full moon in Cancer
Dates and times in UTC. To see how this sky touches your chart, open your personal transits.