Rhythm

The moon calendar

The moons of December 2028

Full moon in Gemini. New moon in Sagittarius. Full moon in Cancer. Exact times below, in Central and UTC.

  1. Friday, December 1
    7:40 pm Central
    Dec 2, 01:40 UTC

    Full moon in Gemini

    Everything lit. What has been growing is visible now.

    Moon in Gemini: talk and errands. Messages fly, nothing sits still.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

  2. Friday, December 15
    8:06 pm Central
    Dec 16, 02:06 UTC

    New moon in Sagittarius

    The dark of the moon. A beginning that nobody can see yet.

    Moon in Sagittarius: distance and the big idea. Travel, learning, blunt honesty.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

  3. Sunday, December 17

    Saturnalia

    The great reversal — work suspended, hierarchies turned over, the year let go of before it ends. Ran for days, and everyone knew the date.

    Source: Macrobius, Saturnalia I.10; Ovid, Fasti I.63–86

  4. Thursday, December 21
    2:20 am Central
    Dec 21, 08:20 UTC

    Winter solstice

    The longest night, and the return of the light.

    Source: Computed from the Sun’s apparent ecliptic longitude (astronomy-engine).

  5. Sunday, December 31
    10:48 am Central
    Dec 31, 16:48 UTC

    Full moon in Cancer

    Everything lit. What has been growing is visible now.

    Moon in Cancer: home and feeling. Protective, close to the base, the Moon's own sign.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

Computed with astronomy-engine, which follows the NASA JPL ephemerides. Times are Central (Daylight or Standard as the date falls) and UTC; a moon is one instant for the whole world, so only the clock changes with the zone.

How to use the month

Start after the new moon. Review at the full.

The week after the new moon is for beginning what you decided on at the dark of the moon. The full moon is when it shows, and the days after it are for looking honestly at how it went. The last week before the next new moon is for finishing and clearing. That is the whole method, and the app runs a planner on it for people who run businesses.

The sign each moon falls in colours it. The lines under each moon above say what that sign is like; the house wheel says which of your own houses it lands in, from your rising sign.

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