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The Lunation Number or Lunation Cycle is a number given to each lunation beginning from a specific one in history. Several conventions are in use. The most commonly used was the Brown Lunation Number (BLN), which defines "lunation 1" as beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest William Brown's lunar theory was introduced in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.
On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, the New Moon in Leo rises at 5:38 a.m. ET – days after Venus retrograde passed through the heart of the Sun in a rare Venus cazimi.
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars.Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) of lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, that combines monthly lunar cycles with the solar year. As with all calendars which divide the year into months, there is an additional requirement that the year have a whole number of months (Moon cycles).
The New Moon in Gemini occurs on June 18, 2023, at 12:36 A.M. Eastern Time. As this New Moon forms a square to Neptune and a semi-square to Venus, it presents an opportunity for reflection.
This new moon is your opportunity to soar above the clouds into a new realm of reality.
[1] [2] The dark moon tithi is when the Moon is within 12 degrees of the angular distance between the Sun and Moon before conjunction . [3] The New Moon tithi (called Pratipada or Prathama) is the 12 angular degrees after syzygy. Amāvásyā is often translated as new moon since there is no standard term for the Moon before conjunction in English.
The New Moon in Aries occurs on March 21, 2023 at 1:22pm Eastern Time. Learn about the meaning of this event in astrology and read your horoscope by sign.