The 2026 astrology calendar, to the minute.

The three pages above are views of one dataset. It is generated by a single script that runs the Skyfield astronomy library over NASA JPL’s DE442 planetary ephemeris and writes every event as a timestamp, a zodiac sign, and a degree. Longitudes are geocentric and apparent, measured on the true ecliptic and equinox of date — which is the tropical zodiac Western astrology uses. The script runs its own consistency checks before it writes anything (a retrograde station must precede its direct station, a pre-shadow must begin before the station, and so on) and stops rather than publish a date it cannot verify. Nothing is transcribed from another calendar.

• Mercury retrograde 2026–2027 — 6 periods. For each: the station retrograde and station direct (found where Mercury’s rate of motion along the ecliptic changes sign, refined to well under an hour), the sign and degree of both stations, the length in days, and the shadow window — the dates Mercury first reaches the degree it will later station direct at, and finally clears the degree where it stationed retrograde.
• Planetary ingresses 2026 — 49 sign changes, Sun through Neptune, in date order. Each row says whether the planet crossed the boundary moving direct or re-entered a sign while retrograde. Pluto is checked too; it simply makes no sign change in 2026.
• New and full moons 2026 — 12 new moons and 13 full moons, each with the exact instant and the Moon’s sign and degree. Quarter moons are not listed here; the moon phase calculator gives the phase for any date.

Every timestamp is Coordinated Universal Time, written as a date plus a 24-hour clock, and each table repeats that note beneath it. Add or subtract your own zone’s offset to convert. Because an instant near midnight UTC falls on the previous calendar day for most of the Americas and on the next one for Asia, Australia and New Zealand, convert the time before you read the date. A station or lunation is a single instant, not a whole day, so the hour matters. The dataset itself records when it was generated; the pages never round or approximate a date.

Stations are the moments a planet’s apparent motion stalls and reverses. The retrograde span sits between them; the shadow marks the degrees that get covered three times. Use the station dates to know when the period actually begins and ends, and the degrees to see which house of your chart it is happening in. Ingresses mark a planet changing sign. The fast planets do it every few weeks and colour the mood; the outer-planet moves are the ones worth noting in a diary, because they set the background for years. Lunations are the new moon (Sun and Moon at the same degree) and the full moon (180° apart). Note the sign and degree, find the house it falls in on your birth chart, and you have a personal calendar rather than a generic one. For years outside 2026 the retrograde stations tool covers 1900 to 2100, and the void-of-course Moon tool gives the coming week’s void periods in your own time zone.