Seasons & Cycles Moon Calendar 2023 UK (25 x 25cm)

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Saturn in Pisces, (trine South Node/sextile North Node), continues to morph our attitudes towards responsibility, structure and authority as he continues on his journey to meet Neptune. Concepts and structures are inevitably becoming less ‘earth bound’ at this time and more in tune with our individual responsibilities towards the collective – developing more awareness of the ‘higher purpose’ of our existence. Native American teaching sometimes references the ‘broken Sacred Hoop’ – the idea that the physical and spiritual parts of our lives have become separated from each other. We need to heal the Sacred Hoop if we are to advance positively and holistically into the future. A week after the new moon, the moon is 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky and is half-illuminated from our point of view — what we call first quarter because it is about a quarter of the way around Earth. This is extreme energy, from which positive outcomes are more likely to come with careful thought and integrity. We may feel the urge to spontaneously move forward in an impulsive, Aries way without much thought! However, on the 21st, Mercury turns retrograde just a day after the New Moon which will make us pause as communications become complicated! All the astrological factors involved within this Lunar moonth are contributing to this unusually powerful opportunity for a new beginning – but we might sense that we still need space to think about the best way forward. Thank you, Mercury! He turns direct again on 15th May. If we didn’t understand the insights and attitudes we were offered on the last Aries New Moon on the 21st March, we are being presented with a second dose of Aries energy in the powerful last few hours of the sign on 20th April. The Cosmos underlines the intensity of the energy with a Grand Finale explosion of multi-coloured fireworks – a total Solar Eclipse thrown in for good measure. On the autumnal equinox, day and night are each about 12 hours long (with the actual time of equal day and night, in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring a few days after the autumnal equinox). The Sun crosses the celestial equator going southward; it rises exactly due east and sets exactly duewest. Each full moon is calculated to occur at an exact moment, which may or may not be near the time the moon rises where you are. So when a full moon rises, it’s typically doing so some hours before or after the actual time when it’s technically full, but a casual skywatcher won’t notice the difference. In fact, the moon will often look roughly the same on two consecutive nights surrounding the full moon.

Moon calendar 2023

In the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are switched, the Harvest Moon occurs in March and the Cold Moon is in June. According to Earthsky.org, these are common names for full moons south of the equator. Yes, the seasons are different lengths! Thanks to the elliptical shape of Earth’s orbit around the Sun, Earth doesn’t stay the same distance from the Sun year-round. In January, we reach the point in our orbit nearest to the Sun (called perihelion), and in July, we reach the farthest point ( aphelion). Read more about perihelion and aphelion. Next, the moon moves until more than half of its face appears to be getting sunlight, but the amount is decreasing. This is the waning gibbousphase. Added to this, the squares between the Nodal axis points and Pluto (T Square) will put focus on the opposing tensions between present and future structural paradigms – and the champions of each. Need-for-change-Pluto will take no prisoners. He is determined to move us into an Aquarian ‘new future’ and will create events that force us to either resolve issues or lose parts of our lives that we thought were secure and constant. We will be compelled to cope, understand, learn and move on – or fail. Sudden new technologies are likely to challenge, more Truths will emerge and changing realities will force themselves into our consciousnesses. (On a personal level, this energy will be most active according to where the T square occurs in our natal charts.)The moon is a sphere that travels once around Earth every 27.3 days. It also takes about 27 days for the moon to rotate on its axis. So, the moon always shows us the same face; there is no single "dark side" of the moon. As the moon revolves around Earth, it is illuminated from varying angles by the sun — what we see when we look at the moon is reflected sunlight. On average, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each day, which means sometimes it rises during daylight and other times at night. On the summer solstice, we enjoy the most daylight of the calendar year. The Sun reaches its most northern point in the sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) at local noon. After this date, the days start getting “shorter,” i.e., the length of daylight starts todecrease. Mercury, conjunct Uranus in Taurus and sextile Mars, brings increased energy for communication on all levels, outbreaks of rebellion against unfair practices – and a change in the quality of communications. Retrograde Mercury (next day) will refuse to let unfinished matters lie, quite prepared to ‘go over old ground’ and to slow life down, forcing a re-examination of duplicitous communications until he turns direct again! Solutions that focus on human movement and the distribution of wealth and essential commodities could become more innovative. The growing gap between rich and poor, the ‘haves and have nots’, rattles cages on both sides of the political abyss and hidden corruption becomes increasingly and undeniably ‘on show’. Selfishness is less easy to hide and the demand for transparency increases.

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Days later, the moon has moved another quarter of the way around Earth, to the third quarter position. The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon. All times are local time for The Courts of Four Seasons. Time is adjusted for DST when applicable. They take into account refraction. Dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Current lunation cycle is highlighted yellow. Special events are highlighted blue. Hover over events for more details.It can sometimes feel like winter is dragging on forever, but did you know that winter is the shortest season of the year? (In the Northern Hemisphere, thatis.) At new moon, the moon is between Earth and the sun, so that the side of the moon facing toward us receives no direct sunlight, and is lit only by dim sunlight reflected from Earth. The moon can even create a "ring of fire" solar eclipse when it passes directly in front of the sun, but is at a point in its orbit that is too far from Earth to fully cover the sun's disk. This leaves a ring, or "annulus," around the moon to create what is called an annular solar eclipse.