Read the monthly ephemeris and declinations

Choose the month

Go to Western → Ephemeris & Declinations and choose the Month and Year. Positions are in the zodiac chosen in the header and are given for 0h UT each day; the times of the events below are in the chart's time zone, or in UTC when no chart is open.

Read the longitudes

Longitudes lists every body for each day of the month. ℞ marks retrograde motion, and SR and SD mark the day a planet stations retrograde or direct.

Switch to declinations

Declinations gives each body's distance north or south of the celestial equator. Values in red are out of bounds: beyond the Sun's greatest declination, shown above the table.

Check parallels, the Moon and the stations

Parallels and contra-parallels lists, for the day chosen in its menu, pairs within 1° of the same declination (a parallel) or of the same declination on the other side of the equator (a contra-parallel). A parallel is read like a conjunction and a contra-parallel like an opposition.

Void-of-course Moon lists each period from the Moon's last exact aspect in a sign until it enters the next. By default only the Sun to Saturn count; tick Count Uranus, Neptune and Pluto for void-of-course to add them. Stations and Sign ingresses give the month's turning points and sign changes.