Almanac
The almanac
Reference pages computed from real planetary positions by the same engine that scores the day. Every date on them is worked out from the sky at the moment the page is served, never copied from another almanac, and every time is UK local to the minute.
The pages
- Full moon and new moon dates
Every full moon and new moon in the next twelve months to the minute in UK time, the sign the Moon is in at each, and which are eclipses. Computed, not copied.
- Solar and lunar eclipses
Every solar and lunar eclipse in the next two years: greatest eclipse to the minute in UK time, its kind, where it is central and what the UK sees of it.
- Mercury retrograde dates
Exact Mercury retrograde station times in UK local time, computed from the planet's real position rather than copied — with what apparent retrograde motion actually is.
- Venus retrograde dates
Exact Venus retrograde station times in UK time for the next three periods, computed from the planet's real position, with what apparent retrograde motion is.
- Mars retrograde dates
Exact Mars retrograde station times in UK time for the next two periods, computed from the planet's real position, and why some loops last longer than others.
- Void-of-course Moon times
When the Moon is void of course over the next fourteen days — from its last aspect to its next sign — computed from real positions in UK local time, with what the term actually means.
- How the number is built
The three parts of Eondra's daily 0–100 timing number, every aspect, orb and weight it uses, what a birth time adds, how it is checked against the almanac, and what it can and cannot claim.
Coming up
- Next full moon: 26 October 2026 at 04:12 GMT, Moon in Taurus.
- Next new moon: 9 November 2026 at 07:02 GMT, Moon in Scorpio.
- Mercury next appears to turn back on 24 October 2026 at 08:15 BST, for 20 days.
- Next eclipse: an annular solar eclipse on 6 February 2027, greatest at 15:59 GMT.
Computed, not copied
Every page here is a function of the moment. The server works the dates out from the positions of the Sun, the Moon and the planets with the open-source astronomy-engine library, which is accurate to about an arcminute against the JPL ephemerides; it rebuilds each page once an hour and never stores a date it did not compute. Where a published almanac exists to check against, how the number is built shows the comparison, event by event.
The prose is astronomy. A retrograde is a trick of perspective, a full moon is an instant, an eclipse is a shadow, and each page says what the thing actually is before it says when.
Why we publish this
Eondra is a daily timing brief: one number for the day, a short written brief, and an evening check-in that records whether the day landed. These pages are the public half of its engine — the same positions and the same code, served as plain text to anyone who asks.