Biodynamic planting calendar August 5, 2022
Friday, August 5, 2022
Day type
Flower day
Flowers, broccoli, artichokes — everything that blooms.
Moon phase
Waxing Moon
50 % · 377,052 km
- Moon in the constellation
- Libra
- Element: Light
- Time shares: Virgo 204 minutes · Libra 1236 minutes
- Moon’s path
- descending
- The Moon is descending: time for planting, transplanting, pruning and compost.
- The path is the arc, not the light: ascending does not mean waxing.
- Constellation change
- 03:24VirgoLibra
- Lunar node — unfavourable for sowing and planting.
Moon on this day
- 12:06First Quarter
- 21:31Descending lunar node
In the sky
No event data is available for this date yet.
Upcoming sky events
- August 12, 2026, 18:46Total solar eclipse
- August 13, 2026, 04:00Meteor shower peak: Perseids
- August 28, 2026, 05:13Partial lunar eclipse
- September 14, 2026, 10:37Lunar occultation
- November 10, 2026, 00:00Conjunction
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