Our 2025 celestial events calendar is listed below. From Rio Vista Lodge on the Pacuare River, far from city lights and other light pollution, the night sky is vibrant with the moon and the stars.
Total Lunar Eclipse
We’ll experience a total lunar eclipse during the very early morning of March 14. A total lunar eclipse is when the moon is completely in the Earth’s shadow.
Date: March 14, 2025.
Start: Total eclipse begins at 1:26AM
End: Totality eclipse ends at 2:31AM

Syzygy: Noun. The nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system.
Super full moons
We’ll experience three super full moons this year, meaning the moon will be 13% bigger and 27% brighter than regular full moons. This is because the full moons occur at its closest point to the Earth.
- October 7, 2025
- November 5, 2025
- December 4, 2025
Great Planetary Alignment
A Great Planetary Alignment, otherwise known by the more fun phrase, a Planetary Parade, is occurring early in 2025. This “parade” is when the other seven planets in our solar system are visible in the night sky at the same time. Having all 7 planets visible at the same time is quite rare, however, in 2022 we had a Large Planetary Alignment.
Date: February 28, 2025
There are different alignments names for the number of planets visible at once.
- Conjuction: 2 planets visible at once
- Mini Planetary Alignment: 3 planets visible at once
- Small planetary alignment: 4 planets visible at once
- Large planetary alignment: 5 or 6 planets at once. (Strange that the other names are so specific for the number of planets yet Large Planetary Alignments contains an “or”)
- Great Planetary Alignment: All 7 other planets visible at once.