Biodynamic planting calendar August 16, 2023
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Day type
Fruit day
Tomatoes, beans, grain, fruit — everything that bears fruit.
Moon phase
New Moon
0 % · 406,632 km
- Moon in the constellation
- Leo
- Element: Warmth
- Time shares: Cancer 40 minutes · Leo 1400 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
- 00:40CancerLeo
Moon on this day
- 10:38New Moon
- 12:53Apogee (farthest from Earth)406,633 km
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