Biodynamic planting calendar August 22, 2026
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Day type
Leaf day
Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, herbs — everything grown for its leaves.
Moon phase
Waxing Moon
72 % · 404,637 km
- Moon in the constellation
- Scorpio
- Element: Water
- Time shares: Scorpio 908 minutes · Sagittarius 532 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
- 15:08ScorpioSagittarius
Moon on this day
- 09:22Apogee (farthest from Earth)404,644 km
- 11:54Southern turning point — the Moon starts ascending
In the sky
Upcoming sky events
- August 28, 2026, 05:13Partial lunar eclipse
- September 14, 2026, 10:37Lunar occultation
- November 10, 2026, 00:00Conjunction
- November 22, 2026, 05:30Planetary parade
- December 14, 2026, 14:00Meteor shower peak: Geminids