Biodynamic planting calendar August 12, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Day type
Leaf day
Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, herbs — everything grown for its leaves.
Moon phase
New Moon
0 % · 366,124 km
- Moon in the constellation
- Cancer
- Element: Water
- Time shares: Cancer 955 minutes · Leo 485 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
- 15:55CancerLeo
Moon on this day
- 18:37New Moon
In the sky
- 18:46Total solar eclipse
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