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December 2018

The winter solstice falls on December 21; a full moon in Cancer on December 22 and a new moon in Sagittarius on December 7; Mercury retrograde ends December 6.

Winter Solstice

Sun enters Capricorn · December 21, 5:22 pm ET

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This month

  • New Moon · SagittariusDec 7 · 2:21 am
  • First Quarter · PiscesDec 15 · 6:50 am
  • Full Moon · CancerDec 22 · 12:49 pm
  • Last Quarter · LibraDec 29 · 4:35 am
  • Winter SolsticeDec 21 · 5:22 pm
  • Mercury stations directDec 6 · 4:23 pm

Mercury retrograde Nov 16 – Dec 6

All times Eastern (America/New_York) — the printed edition's anchor.

Notable aspects

  • Mars sextile PlutoDec 17 · 1:56 am
  • Mars conjunction NeptuneDec 7 · 9:20 am
  • Sun square NeptuneDec 5 · 5:27 pm
  • Venus sextile SaturnDec 16 · 9:23 am
  • Sun trine UranusDec 20 · 11:22 am
  • Mercury square NeptuneDec 24 · 7:36 pm
  • Venus sextile PlutoDec 28 · 4:29 pm