Ephemeris 2025
An ephemeris is a table of planetary positions for each day. This one lists where the Sun, the Moon and the planets stood at 00:00 UT on every day of 2025, with the sign, the degree and the retrograde periods.
Months
The year's main events
The stations, eclipses and slow sign changes of 2025, in date order.
| Date | Event | Position |
|---|---|---|
| ≈ | Mars turns direct | 17° Cancer |
| ≈ | Venus turns retrograde | 10° Aries |
| total lunar eclipse in Virgo | 23°58' Virgo | |
| ≈ | Mercury turns retrograde | 9° Aries |
| partial solar eclipse in Aries | 8°59' Aries | |
| Neptune enters Aries | Pisces → Aries | |
| ≈ | Mercury turns direct | 26° Pisces |
| ≈ | Venus turns direct | 24° Pisces |
| Saturn enters Aries | Pisces → Aries | |
| Jupiter enters Cancer | Gemini → Cancer | |
| Uranus enters Gemini | Taurus → Gemini | |
| ≈ | Mercury turns retrograde | 15° Leo |
| ≈ | Mercury turns direct | 4° Leo |
| Saturn enters Pisces | Aries → Pisces | |
| total lunar eclipse in Pisces | 15°23' Pisces | |
| partial solar eclipse in Virgo | 29°04' Virgo | |
| Neptune enters Pisces | Aries → Pisces | |
| Uranus enters Taurus | Gemini → Taurus | |
| ≈ | Mercury turns retrograde | 6° Sagittarius |
| ≈ | Mercury turns direct | 20° Scorpio |
Station times are read from the daily speed and rounded to the hour, so they are approximate.
Frequently Asked Questions
When are the eclipses in 2025?
2025 has 4 eclipses: a total lunar eclipse on 14 March in Virgo, a partial solar eclipse on 29 March in Aries, a total lunar eclipse on 7 September in Pisces and a partial solar eclipse on 21 September in Virgo. Each one is on the month page with its exact time in UTC.
Which planets are retrograde in 2025?
In 2025 these planets turn retrograde: Venus (2 March), Mercury (15 March, 18 July, 9 November), Pluto (4 May), Neptune (4 July), Saturn (13 July), Chiron (30 July), Uranus (6 September) and Jupiter (11 November). The dates in brackets are the retrograde stations. The month pages list the direct stations too.
Which slow planets change sign in 2025?
The slow-moving bodies that change sign in 2025: On 11 January True Node enters Pisces. On 30 March Neptune enters Aries. On 25 May Saturn enters Aries. On 9 June Jupiter enters Cancer. On 7 July Uranus enters Gemini. On 1 September Saturn enters Pisces. On 22 October Neptune enters Pisces. On 8 November Uranus enters Taurus. Every sign change of every body is on the month pages.
Can I download this ephemeris?
Yes. Every year and month table is free to download as JSON or CSV from the links under the table, computed with the Swiss Ephemeris at 00:00 UT. Please link back to AstroAk when you publish work based on it.
How do I read this table?
Each row is one day at 00:00 Universal Time and each column is one body. A cell gives the degree and minute within the sign, and an R means the body is moving retrograde that day. Read down a column to follow one planet, read across a row to see the whole sky on one date.
Calculated with Swiss Ephemeris. Positions are geocentric and in the tropical zodiac, for 00:00 Universal Time.
Data generated on .