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What’s the difference between the website and the app?
The website’s calendars are free forever: subscribe in Apple Calendar or Google Calendar and the sky sits among your appointments. The app, Orbit Astro Calendar for iPhone and iPad, is a calendar of its own with more in it: your transits, the asteroids, Chiron, the North Node, Lilith, and eight fixed stars, the Western or Vedic zodiac, notifications, and a Lock Screen widget. It works like any calendar app: View by day, multiple days, as a list, by month or year.
How much is the app?
The first week is free. Then $1.99 a month or $15.99 a year, through the App Store.
How do I cancel?
In your iPhone’s Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Orbit Astro Calendar → Cancel Subscription. To avoid being charged when the free week ends, cancel at least a day before it does. You can also get there from the app: Settings → Subscription.
I reinstalled the app, or got a new phone.
How do I get my subscription back?
Open the app and tap Restore at the bottom of the subscription screen. Use the same Apple Account you subscribed with.
Why can’t I find the town I was born in?
The app lists every city and town of 15,000 people or more, all over the world. If yours isn’t there, choose a nearby town in the same time zone. Orbit Astro Calendar uses the birthplace only to find the time zone at your birth, so your transits come out exactly the same.
I don’t know my birth time. Can I still use it?
Yes. Turn on “I don’t know my birth time.” Orbit Astro Calendar uses noon, leaves the Moon out of your transits (it moves too fast for a guess), and shows the Moon’s sign as one of two if it changed signs that day.
Where are my birth details kept?
Only on your iPhone or iPad. They are never sent anywhere. See our privacy policy.
What’s the difference between Western and Vedic?
Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac: the signs follow the seasons, and Aries begins at the spring equinox. Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which follows the stars; today it runs about 24 degrees behind, so a planet often falls one sign earlier. Orbit Astro Calendar uses the Lahiri version. Choose in the app from the three dots. When Vedic is on, a small V appears in the Calendar icon.
What’s a void Moon?
The stretch between the Moon’s last major aspect in a sign and the moment it enters the next one. Learn more about this in our glossary, where we have lots of astrological vocabulary defined simply.
Why don’t the Moon’s aspects show on the calendar?
The Moon makes several aspects every day, which would crowd the calendar, so its aspects are used only to find the void periods. Your own transits from the Moon do show, in pink, once you add your birth details.
How do I get notifications?
Settings → Notifications, then turn on the kinds you want. At first only your transits are on. To be reminded of a single event, tap it and tap Remind me. If nothing arrives, check your iPhone’s Settings → Notifications → Orbit Astro Calendar.
How do I add the Moon to my Lock Screen? (app only)
Touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, tap the Lock Screen, then the space under the clock, and choose Orbit. It shows the Moon’s sign and when it next changes, or how long it’s void.
Can I add an event to my own calendar?
Yes. Tap the event, then Add to Apple Calendar. For every event of a kind, subscribe to the free calendars on this website.
Can I get the calendars as .ics files?
Yes, if you know your way around calendar files: download all 5 as a zip. Import each one into a new, empty calendar of its own, never into the one you use every day. Imported events never update, and most calendar apps can’t remove them all at once, so undoing an import means deleting events one by one, and we can’t do that for you. If in doubt, use the Add to Apple Calendar and Add to Google Calendar buttons instead.
How accurate are the times?
Positions come from NASA JPL’s DE440 ephemeris, and times are exact to the minute, in your own time zone. If you travel, the calendar follows your phone’s time zone.
How far ahead does it go?
2026 through 2029, extended each year with an app update.
Can Orbit Astro Calendar tell my future?
No. Orbit Astro Calendar is a calendar of where the planets are, calculated precisely. What they mean is up to you and your own interpretations. Following the astrological events that coincide with your personal life events or world events is a great way to get started learning what influences they may have.
I have an idea, or found something wrong. How can I tell you?
Write us at the address below. We read all feedback sent our way.

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