Astrology calendar for 2030

All of 2030: 4 eclipses, 20 retrograde periods, 38 planets changing signs, 25 new and full moons. The slowest – and the most noticeable: Saturn in Gemini May 31, Jupiter in Sagittarius October 22. Eastern Time; every row lets you open the chart of the sky for that moment.

The highlights of 2030

The events that set the year: eclipses, sign changes among the slow planets, and the stations of Mercury, Venus and Mars. Everything else is detail inside that frame.

The Sun through the zodiac in 2030

The dates the zodiac signs begin in 2030 – the moment the Sun crosses a sign boundary. The boundaries shift by about a day from year to year, so being born on the cusp is not folklore but arithmetic: check yourself against the table.

Eastern Time. Other sites can be a day off – almost always this is not a calculation error but a different time zone: most services publish in UT. The time zone switch is in the page header.

Sign changes by sign in 2030

A sign change changes the manner, not the theme. Mars is still Mars, but in Aries it acts head-on and in Pisces it takes the roundabout route. 38 sign changes across 6 planets this year.

The planet you picked makes no sign changes this year.

Retrograde Planets in 2030

A retrograde is an optical effect: from Earth a planet appears to move backward across the sky. The practical meaning turns with it: the planet's theme works inward and backward, not direct. Turning retrograde in 2030: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Chiron.

Eclipses in 2030

An eclipse is a new or full moon that lands close to the lunar nodes. It works like an ordinary lunation, only stronger and longer: the effect runs for months rather than a day. Where you can, don't rush anything final – the picture is still moving.

Magnitude is how much of the disc is covered: above one means a total eclipse. Whether you can see it depends on where you are – the table gives the astronomical moment of maximum in Eastern Time.

New and Full Moons 2030

The lunar month is the shortest working cycle in astrology: you plan from the new moon, and you see the result by the full moon. 2030 has 25 new and full moons in all.

The first and last quarters are not in this table; you can see them in the monthly calendar, together with the exact times of every phase. A page of their own, with nothing else on it – new and full moons 2030. The folk names for full moons come from farming tradition, not astrology, but people look them up often enough that they are here.

Major aspects 2030

An aspect is an exact angle between planets. Here you get only the angles between the outer planets, from Jupiter outward: those build over weeks and months, so they describe a whole year rather than a single day. The fast aspects of the Moon, Mercury and Venus are in the monthly calendar.

The year by zodiac sign

Slow planets sit in a sign for months, and all that time they hold the same relationship to your sign. Pick a sign and you will see which months of 2030 come easy, which take real effort, and which just pass you by. This is a frame for the month, not a forecast for a day: exact times and degrees are in the tables above.

Astrology calendar by month 2030

The monthly calendar has what the yearly one doesn't: the Moon's aspects, void-of-course windows, the daily ephemeris, and a full write-up for every day.

Archive and Future: 1900–2050

The calendar covers 1900–2050. Click a year to open its event summary, or pick a year and month in the form below the list to open the detailed day-by-day calendar.