Astro calendar
The sky in 2016
Retrogrades, lunations and the Sun's sign changes, worked out for the whole year.
Retrogrades in 2016
Mercury retrograde 4 periods
- From January 5 to January 25 · from Aquarius to Capricorn
- From April 28 to May 22 · Taurus
- From August 30 to September 22 · Virgo
- From December 19 to January 8 · from Capricorn to Sagittarius
Venus retrograde no period
No retrograde period this year.
Mars retrograde one period
- From April 17 to June 29 · from Sagittarius to Scorpio
Month by month
January
- Mercury stations retrograde in Aquarius
- New moon in Capricorn
- The Sun enters Aquarius
- Full moon in Leo
- Mercury stations direct in Capricorn
February
- 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
- Mars stations retrograde in Sagittarius
- The Sun enters Taurus
- Full moon in Scorpio
- Mercury stations retrograde in Taurus
May
- New moon in Taurus
- The Sun enters Gemini
- Full moon in Sagittarius
- Mercury stations direct in Taurus
June
- New moon in Gemini
- Full moon in Sagittarius
- The Sun enters Cancer
- Mars stations direct in Scorpio
July
- New moon in Cancer
- Full moon in Capricorn
- The Sun enters Leo
August
- New moon in Leo
- Full moon in Aquarius
- The Sun enters Virgo
- Mercury stations retrograde in Virgo
September
- New moon in Virgo
- Full moon in Pisces
- Mercury stations direct in Virgo
- The Sun enters Libra
October
- New moon in Libra
- Full moon in Aries
- The Sun enters Scorpio
- New moon in Scorpio
November
- Full moon in Taurus
- The Sun enters Sagittarius
- New moon in Sagittarius
December
- Full moon in Gemini
- Mercury stations retrograde in Capricorn
- The Sun enters Capricorn
- New moon in Capricorn
Dates and times in UTC. To see how this sky touches your chart, open your personal transits.