Day: October 5, 2023

October 5, 2023 Current Moon Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Current Moon Phase

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 was born.

From MoonGiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning.

Visit the October 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on October 5 has an illumination of 61%. 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 October 5 the Moon is 21.14 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.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 61%
Moon Age: 21.14 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 394,019.30 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 149,582,826.75 km

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

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.

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, 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

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

October 05, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:12 Libra 26
Moon:05 Cancer 27
Mercury:01 Libra 41
Venus:27 Leo 26
Mars:25 Libra 49
Jupiter:13 Taurus 59 Rx
Saturn:01 Pisces 14 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 30 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 49 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54 Rx

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 58
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 29 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):00 Virgo 16

Chiron:17 Aries 55 Rx
Ceres:08 Scorpio 31
Pallas:10 Libra 10
Juno:24 Leo 59
Vesta:04 Cancer 55

Eris:24 Aries 50 Rx

Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:4
Water:5
Cardinal:11
Fixed:5
Mutable:3

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

October 05, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:12 Libra 22
Moon:04 Cancer 25
Mercury:01 Libra 32
Venus:27 Leo 22
Mars:25 Libra 46
Jupiter:13 Taurus 59 Rx
Saturn:01 Pisces 14 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 30 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 50 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54 Rx

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 58
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 29 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):00 Virgo 16

Chiron:17 Aries 55 Rx
Ceres:08 Scorpio 28
Pallas:10 Libra 08
Juno:24 Leo 57
Vesta:04 Cancer 54

Eris:24 Aries 50 Rx

Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:4
Water:5
Cardinal:11
Fixed:5
Mutable:3

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

5 October 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:12 Libra 04
Moon:00 Cancer 46
Mercury:01 Libra 01
Venus:27 Leo 07
Mars:25 Libra 34
Jupiter:14 Taurus 01 Rx
Saturn:01 Pisces 15 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 31 Rx
Neptune:25 Pisces 50 Rx
Pluto:27 Capricorn 54 Rx

True Lunar Node:24 Aries 58
Mean Lunar Node:25 Aries 30 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):00 Virgo 14

Chiron:17 Aries 56 Rx
Ceres:08 Scorpio 21
Pallas:10 Libra 00
Juno:24 Leo 49
Vesta:04 Cancer 51

Eris:24 Aries 50 Rx

Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:4
Water:5
Cardinal:11
Fixed:5
Mutable:3

A Thought for Today

I took a few longish walks this week to find my path again and to release all the negative everything that was inside of me to refill it with all positive things. So this poem really spoke to me as I was looking for a thought to put up. It also helped me to feel better physically which in turn let me get the posts for today up yesterday like I had been doing but was unable to for a while.

There is a lot to be said for walking in the grass among trees and other things pleasing to the eye that Mother Nature and Gaia gives us to look at. They also provide us lovely things to smell like flowers and fresh cut grass just to name a couple. They give us things to feel the different textures that the world around us offers. They help to ease our troubles and worries to hopefully all us to gain a better state of mind. If you do not live in a home where these things are not just outside your front door trying going to a park or forest preserve and walk there. It doesn’t need to be a long walk as you can still experince the afore mentioned things by sitting on a bench or lawn chair or the grass to take in what beauty is around you.

I also encourage you to take some type of trash bag with you and clean up what others have just left on the ground that interrupts the energy we can feel when surrounded or in nature.

Blessed be dear Sisters, Brothers, and Friends!