December 30 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 30 has an illumination of 15%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 30 the Moon is 25.77 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

30 December 2021
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:09 Capricorn 28
Moon:29 Scorpio 55
Mercury:26 Capricorn 41
Venus:23 Capricorn 47 Rx
Mars:12 Sagittarius 22
Jupiter:00 Pisces 21
Saturn:11 Aquarius 47
Uranus:10 Taurus 58 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 39
Pluto:25 Capricorn 54

True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13

Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 35 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 21

Chiron:08 Aries 30

Ceres:28 Taurus 44 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 12
Juno:16 Capricorn 59
Vesta:23 Sagittarius 58

Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4

Earth:8
Air:3
Water:4

Cardinal:7

Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

December 30, 2021
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:09 Capricorn 28
Moon:29 Scorpio 55
Mercury:26 Capricorn 41
Venus:23 Capricorn 47 Rx
Mars:12 Sagittarius 22
Jupiter:00 Pisces 21
Saturn:11 Aquarius 47
Uranus:10 Taurus 58 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 39
Pluto:25 Capricorn 54
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 35 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 21
Chiron:08 Aries 30
Ceres:28 Taurus 44 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 12
Juno:16 Capricorn 59
Vesta:23 Sagittarius 58
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:4

Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7