Year-at-a-Glance

January 2024

January 2024

January 1
New Year’s Day

January 2
Mercury goes Direct at 22° Sagittarius

January 4
Mars moves into Capricorn

January 6
Three Kings Day; Feast of the Epiphany; Dia de Los Reyes, Epiphany; Theophany

January 11
New Moon in Capricorn

January 13
Mercury moves into Capricorn

January 15
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance

January 20
Sun moves into Aquarius; Pluto moves into Aquarius

January 23
Venus moves into Capricorn

January 24
Mercury Rerograde Shadow perdio ends

January 25
Tu B’Shevat (also Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot and the New Year of the Trees); Full Moon in Leo, also known as the Wolf Moon, the Storm Moon, the Snow Moon, the Old Moon, the Holiday Moon, and the Moon after Yule

January 26
Uranus goes Direct at 19° Taurus

February 2024

February 2024

February 2 Candlemas; Imbolc

February 4 Mercury moves into Aquarius

February 9 Lunar Imbolc; New Moon in Aquarius; Tibetan New Year; Beginning of the Chinese New Year Celebrations: Year of the Wood Dragon

February 12 Mars moves into Aquarius

February 13 Mardi Gras

February 14 Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten Season; St. Valentine’s Day

February 16 Venus moves into Aquarius

February 18 Sun moves into Pisces

February 19 President’s Day Observation

February 22 Mercury moves into Pisces

February 24
Full Moon in Virgo, also known as the Snow Moon, the Ice Moon, the Hunger Moon, and the Budding Moon

February 25
End of the Chinese New Year Celebration

March 2024

March 2024

March 8 

International Women’s Day

March 9

Mercury moves into Aries; Mercury Retrograde Prelude period begins

March 10

New Moon in Pisces; Daylight Savings Time begins

March 11

Venus moves into Pisces; Eclipse Prelude period begins; Ramadan begins at Sunset and runs through April 9

March 12

Aztec New Year

March 17

St. Patrick’s Day

March 19

Sun moves into Aries; Spring Equinox; Ostara

March 22

Mars moves into Pisces

March 23

Purim (The Festival of Lots)

March 24

Palm Sunday

March 25

Penumbral or Appulse Lunar Eclipse; Full Moon in Libra, also known as the Worm Moon, the Crow Moon, the Crust Moon, the Sap Moon, the Seed Moon, the Sleepy Moon, and the Lenten Moon; The Annunciation (Solemnity of the Annunciation, Lady Day, the Feast of the Incarnation, or Conceptio Christi); Shushan Purim

March 28

Maundy Thursday

March 29

Good Friday

March 31

Easter Sunday

April 2024

April 2024

April 1

Cesar Chavez Day; Mercury Retrogrades at 27° Aries

April 4

Venus moves into Aries

April 8

New Moon in Aries; Total Solar Eclipse at 19° Aries; Eclipse Shadow period begins

April 9

End of Ramadan; Eid al-Fitr

April 10

Siblings’ Day

April 15

Tax Day

April 16

Emancipation Day

April 19

Sun moves into Taurus

April 22

First Night of Pesach/Passover; Earth Day; Eclipse Shadow period ends

April 23

Lunar Beltane; Full Moon in Scorpio, also known as the Hare Moon, the Pink Moon, the Peony Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Growing Moon, the Egg Moon, the Fish Moon and the Paschal Moon

April 25

Mercury goes Direct at 15° Aries

April 29

Venus moves into Taurus

April 30

Last night of Pesach/Passover; Mars moves into Aries

May 2024

May 2024

May 1

Beltane; May Day; International Worker’s Day

May 2

Pluto Retrogrades at 2° Aquarius

May 5
Cinco de Mayo

May 6
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

May 7
New Moon in Taurus

May 6
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

May 7
New Moon in Taurus

May 12

Mother’s Day

May 13

Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s National Memorial Day)

May 14

Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)

May 15

Mercury moves into Taurus; Mercury Retrograde Shadow period ends

May 20

Sun moves into Gemini

May 23

Venus moves into Gemini; Full Moon in Sagittarius, also known as the Flower, the Milk Moon, the Dyad Moon, the Dragon Moon, and the Corn Planting Moon

May 25

Jupiter moves into Gemini

May 27

Memorial Day

June 2024

June 2024

June 3

Mercury moves into Gemini

June 5
Yom Yerushalyim (Jerusalem Day)

June 6
New Moon in Gemini

June 8
Mars moves into Taurus

June 11
Shavuot

June 14
Flag Day

June 16
Father’s Day; Venus moves into Cancer

June 17
Mercury moves into Cancer

June 19
Juneteenth

June 20
Summer Solstice; Litha; Sun Moves into Cancer

June 21
First Full Moon in Capricorn, also known as the Honey Moon, the Mead Moon, the Rose Moon, the Strawberry Moon, and the Lotus Moon

June 29
Armed Forces Day; Saturn Retrogrades at 19° Pisces

July 2024

July 2024

July 1
Canada Day

July 2
Neptune Retrogrades at 29° Pisces; Mercury moves into Leo

July 4
Independence Day

July 5
New Moon in Cancer

July 11
Venus moves into Leo

July 12
Mercury Retrograde Prelude period begins

July 21
Second Full Moon in Capricorn, also known as the Full Buck Moon, the Hay Moon, the Thunder Moon, the Wort Moon, the Hungry Ghost Moon

July 14
Bastille Day

July 20
Mars moves into Gemini

July 22
Sun moves into Leo

July 25
Mercury moves into Virgo

July 26
Chiron Retrogrades at 23° Aries; Summer Olympics 2024 Opens

August 2024

August 2024

August 2
Lammas/Lughnassa

August 4
New Moon in Leo; Venus moves into Virgo; Mercury Retrogrades at 4° Virgo

August 11
Summer Olympics 2024 Closes

August 13
Tisha B’av

August 14
Mercury moves into Leo

August 19
Lunar Lammas/Lughnassa; Full Moon in Aquarius, also known as the Sturgeon Moon, the Green Corn Moon, the Grain Moon, the Red Moon or the Barley Moon, and for some, the Harvest Moon

August 22
Sun moves into Virgo

August 28
Mercury goes Direct at 21° Leo

August 29
Venus moves into Libra

September 2024

September 2024

September 1
Uranus goes Retrograde at 27° Taurus; Pluto moves into Capricorn

September 2
Labor Day Observance; New Moon in Virgo

September 4
Mars moves into Cancer

September 8
Grandparents’ Day; Mercury moves into Virgo

September 10
Eclipse Prelude period begins

September 11
Patriot Day

September 17
Partial Lunar Eclipse; Mars Retrograde Prelude period begins and runs for 80 days; Full Moon in Pisces, also known as the Corn Moon, the Barley Moon, the Chrysanthemum Moon, or the Harvest Moon

September 22
Autumnal Equinox; Mabon; Sun moves into Libra; Venus moves into Scorpio

September 24
Mercury Retrograde Shadow ends

September 26
Mercury moves into Libra

October 2024

October 2024

October 2
Rosh Hashanah, the Day of Judgement and Atonement that begins the Days of Awe; New Moon in Libra; Annular Solar Eclipse; Eclipse Shadow period begins

October 4
Rosh Hashanah ends

October 9
Jupiter goes Retrograde at 21° Gemini

October 11
Pluto goes Direct at 29° Capricorn

October 12
Yom Kippur

October 13
Mercury moves into Scorpio

October 14
Indigenous People’s Day

October 16
Eclipse Shadow Period ends

October 17
Sukkot; Venus moves into Sagittarius; Full Moon in Aries, also known as the Blood Moon, the Travel Moon, the Kindly Moon, and the Hunter's Moon

October 22
Sun moves into Scorpio

October 24
Shemini Atzeret

October 25
Simchat Torah

October 31
Samhain; Hallowmas; Dia de Los Muertos

November 2024

November 2024

November 1
Diwali; Lunar Samhain; All Saint’s Day; First New Moon in November, in Scorpio

November 2
All Soul’s Day; Mercury moves into Sagittarius

November 3
Mars moves into Leo; Daylight Savings Time end

November 5
Election Day

November 6
Mercury Retrograde Prelude period begins

November 11
Veterans Day; Remembrance Day; Venus moves into Capricorn

November 15
Full Moon in Taurus, also known as the Beaver Moon, the Frosty Moon, the Hunter’s Moon, the White Moon, and the Oak Moon; Saturn goes Direct at 12° Pisces

November 19
Pluto moves into Aquarius

November 21
Sun moves into Sagittarius

November 25
Mercury goes Retrograde at 22° Sagittarius

November 28
Thanksgiving Day

November 30
Second New Moon in November, in Sagittarius

December 2024

December 2024

December 6
Venus moves into Aquarius; Mars goes Retrograde at 6° Leo

December 7
Pearl Harbor Day; Neptune goes Direct at 27° Pisces

December 15
Mercury goes Direct at 6° Sagittarius; Full Moon in Gemini, also known as the Cold Moon, the Long Night(s) Moon, the Bitter Moon, and the Moon before Yule

December 21
Winter Solstice; Yule; Sun moves into Capricorn

December 24
Christmas Eve

December 25
Christmas Day; Hanukkah begins

December 26
Boxing Day; Kwanzaa begins

December 29
Chiron goes Direct at 19° Aries

December 30
New Moon in Capricorn

December 31
New Year’s Eve

January 2023

January 2023

January 1
New Year’s Day

January 2
New Year’s Day holiday observation; Venus moves into Aquarius

January 6
the Feast of the Epiphany; Three Kings Day; Full Moon in Cancer: also known as the Wolf Moon, the Storm Moon, the Snow, Moon, the Old Moon, and the Moon after Yule

January 13
Mars goes direct at 8° Gemini

January 16
Martin Luther King Junior holiday observation: the National Day of Service

January 19
Mercury goes direct at 8° Capricorn; the 21-day Mercury retrograde shadow period begins

January 20
Sun moves into Aquarius

January 21
New Moon in Aquarius; the first of two Super New Moons of 2023; Lunar Imbolc

January 22
the Lunar New Year; the Chinese New year (The Year of the Water Rabbit); Chinese Lantern Festival

January 23
Uranus goes direct at 14° Taurus

January 27
Venus moves into Pisces

February 2023

February 2023

February 1
Imbolc

February 5
Full Moon in Leo: also known as the Snow Moon, the Ice Moon, and the Hunger Moon

February 9
Mercury retrograde 21-day shadow period ends

February 11
Mercury moves into Aquarius

February 14
Valentine’s Day

February 18
Sun moves into Pisces

February 19
Venus moves into Aries; New Moon in Pisces; the Second of two Super New Moons of 2023

February 20
Presidents’ Day holiday observation

February 21
Mardi Gras; Feralia

February 22
Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent

March 2023

March 2023

March 2
Mercury moves into Pisces 

March 6
Purim begins at Sunset

March 7
Purim ends at Sunset; Full Moon in Virgo: also known as the Worm Moon, the Crow Moon, the Crust Moon, the Sap Moon, the Seed Moon, or the Lenten Moon

March 8
Saturn moves into Pisces

March 12
Daylight savings time begins; Aztec New Year

March 17
St. Patrick’s Day; Venus moves into Taurus 

March 19
Mercury moves into Aries; Mothering Sunday

March 20
The Sun moves into Aries; the Spring Equinox; Ostara

March 22
Ramadan begins at Sunset

March 23
Pluto moves into Aquarius

March 26
Mars moves into Cancer

March 29
The Mercury retrograde 24-day prelude period begins

March 31
Cesar Chavez Day

April 2023

April 2023

April 3
Mercury moves into Taurus

April 4
The 14-day Eclipse prelude period begins

April 5
Full Moon in Libra: also known as the Hare Moon, the Pink Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Growing Moon, the Egg Moon, the Fish Moon, and the Paschal Moon; Passover/Pesach – the Festival of Liberation – begins at Sunset

April 6
Maundy Thursday; End of Lent

April 7
Good Friday

April 9
Easter

April 10
Venus moves into Gemini; Siblings Day

April 13
Passover ends at Sunset

April 19
New Moon in Aries; Hybrid Solar Eclipse

April 20
Sun moves into Taurus

April 21
Eid ul Fitr (Ramadan ends)

April 22
Earth Day; Mercury retrogrades at 15° Taurus

May 2023

May 2023

May 1
Beltane

May 2
Pluto retrogrades at 0° Aquarius 

May 5
Lunar Beltane, Full Moon in Scorpio: also known as the Flower, the Milk Moon, the Dyad Moon, and the Corn Planting Moon; Appulse Lunar Eclipse; the 14-day Eclipse shadow period begins

May 7
Venus moves into Cancer

May 14
Mother’s Day

May 15
Mercury goes direct at 5° Taurus; the Mercury retrograde 24-day shadow period begins

May 16
Jupiter moves into Taurus

May 19
New Moon in Taurus

May 20
Mars moves into Leo; the 14-day Eclipse shadow period ends

May 21
Sun moves into Gemini

May 25
Shavuot begins at Sundown

May 27
Shavuot ends at Sundown

May 29
Memorial Day holiday observance

June 2023

June 2023

June 3
Full Moon in Sagittarius: also known as the Honey Moon, the Mead Moon, the Rose Moon, the Strawberry Moon

June 5
Venus moves into Leo

June 8
The Mercury retrograde 24-day shadow period ends

June 11
Pluto moves into Capricorn; Mercury moves into Gemini

June 14
Flag Day

June 17
New Moon in Gemini

June 18
Father’s Day; Saturn retrogrades at 7° Pisces

June 19
Juneteenth holiday observation

June 21
Sun moves into Cancer; Summer Solstice; Litha

June 24
Summer Solstice celebration in Santa Barbara

June 26
Mercury moves into Cancer

July 2023

July 2023

July 1
Neptune retrogrades at 27° Pisces

July 3
The first Super Full Moon of 2023; Full Moon in Capricorn; also known as the Full Buck Moon, the Hay Moon, the Thunder Moon, the Wort Moon

July 4
American Independence Day holiday observance

July 10
Mars moves into Virgo, Mercury moves into Leo

July 17
New Moon in Cancer

July 18
Islamic New Year

July 22
Sun moves into Leo

July 23
Chiron retrogrades at 19° Aries; Venus retrogrades at 23° Leo

July 28
Mercury moves into Virgo

July 30
The Mercury retrograde 24-day prelude period begins

August 2023

August 2023

August 1
Lunar Lammas/Lughnasa; The second Super Full Moon of 2023; Full Moon in Aquarius: also known as the Sturgeon Moon, the Green Corn Moon, the Grain Moon, the Red Moon or the Barley Moon

August 2
Lammas/Lughnasa; Santa Barbara Fiesta starts

August 6
Santa Barbara Fiesta ends

August 13
Obon (or Bon) Festival begins

August 16
New Moon in Leo; Obon (or Bon) Festival ends

August 23
Sun moves into Virgo

August 24
Mercury retrogrades at 21° Virgo

August 27
Mars moves into Libra

August 28
Uranus retrogrades at 23° Taurus

August 30
The third Super Full Moon of 2023; The second Full Moon in August (Blue Moon); Full Moon in Pisces