Biodynamic planting calendar August 16, 2025
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Day type
Root day
Carrots, beetroot, potatoes, onions — everything that grows below ground.
Moon phase
Waning Moon
47 % · 370,106 km
- Moon in the constellation
- Taurus
- Element: Earth
- Time shares: Aries 389 minutes · Taurus 1051 minutes
- Moon’s path
- ascending
- The Moon is ascending: time for harvesting, grafting and cut flowers.
- The path is the arc, not the light: ascending does not mean waxing.
- Constellation change
- 06:29AriesTaurus
Moon on this day
- 06:12Last quarter
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