Biodynamic planting calendar May 5, 2026
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Day type
Leaf day
Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, herbs — everything grown for its leaves.
Moon phase
Waning Moon
88 % · 405,721 km
- Moon in the constellation
- Scorpio
- Element: Water
- Time shares: Scorpio 794 minutes · Sagittarius 646 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
- 13:14ScorpioSagittarius
Moon on this day
- 12:22Southern turning point — the Moon starts ascending
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