Planetary Highlights of 2005

To speed your predictive work in 2005, we’ve cut our way through the jungle of aspects and other planetary events in order to cull out what we think are the most important and interesting phenomena of the year.

Besides dates, times and degrees of the obvious ingresses, aspects, stations, eclipses and Moon phases, we include often-overlooked and-hard-to-find information. If you want to know about not only the essential basics, but also things like

• big planetary clusters

• extremes of declination

• maximum elongations

• the most important New and Full Moons

• when planets enter and exit their retrograde shadow

• stations and aspects of the outer-planet midpoints

• when there are no planets in a given element or mode, and

• the current ongoing Neptune-Pluto septile