post_astrology_ecliptic_crossings

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Get every moment a body crosses the plane of the ecliptic during a given year, for the 11 Western bodies that leave it: the Moon and Mercury through Pluto, plus Chiron and Black Moon Lilith. A crossing from south to north is an ascending node passage, north to south a descending one. These are the instants a body sits exactly on the ecliptic rather than merely near it, which is what makes an eclipse possible when a lunar crossing coincides with a New or Full Moon, and what practitioners use for node-based timing. Returns the exact date and time in your timezone with the tropical longitude and sign. The Sun and the lunar nodes are excluded because they lie on the plane by definition and so have no nodes of their own. Essential for eclipse-season work, node timing, and astronomical calendars. Ecliptic crossing API, planetary node passage, ascending and descending nodes. Verified against NASA JPL Horizons.