The Moon right now

This is the sky itself: what the Moon is doing at this moment, and the same for everyone reading it. What it means for one particular chart is a different question, and the answer is further down.

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tldr: This year: four eclipses, 4 slow-sky headlines, and Barbault's cyclic index at 821 of 1800 — a dispersing year.

This Year, 2026

A year holds about thirteen turns of the Moon’s cycle, so at this distance the Moon is the rhythm rather than the news. What makes one year differ from the next is the slow sky over the top of it, the outer planets, which change sign once in a decade or two. Both are below. Clock times are in UTC.

The Moon makes 12 complete rounds of the zodiac this year, 25 New and Full Moons between them, and spends about 24% of it void of course — and that much is true of almost any year. What sets this one apart begins with four eclipses and continues with the slow movers changing ground — Neptune enters Aries, Saturn enters Aries, Uranus enters Gemini and Chiron enters Taurus. Barbault's cyclic index, which measures how gathered or scattered the five slow planets are, stands at 821 out of a possible 1800 and is still climbing away from the concentration of 2022 toward the widest spread since, due around 2031 — so this is a dispersing year rather than a gathering one.

The Year’s Headlines

Only what is genuinely uncommon: eclipses, the slow planets changing sign or turning, the long aspects between them, and, in the rare years that have one, a Barbault basket. Ordinary New and Full Moons live in the months below, where they belong.

  • 17 Feb , Annular Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
    A supercharged new moon in Aquarius, an accelerated fresh start around community, ideals, and breaking the mold whose effects ripple out for months.
    And it does not arrive alone: square Uranus (Taurus 27.5°), 1.29° from exact, friction — the two want different things and something has to give.

    Eclipses are the year's fixed points: there are only four or so, they arrive in pairs about six months apart, and tradition reads them as the moments a story changes course.

  • 3 Mar , Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo (Blood Moon)
    A supercharged full moon in Virgo, a fated turning point around work, health, and the fine details, often a release or a revelation.
    And it does not arrive alone: sextile Jupiter (Cancer 15.2°), 2.31° from exact, an opening — help that has to be taken up rather than arriving on its own.

    Eclipses are the year's fixed points: there are only four or so, they arrive in pairs about six months apart, and tradition reads them as the moments a story changes course.

  • 12 Aug , Total Solar Eclipse in Leo
    A supercharged new moon in Leo, an accelerated fresh start around creativity, romance, and the urge to shine whose effects ripple out for months.

    Eclipses are the year's fixed points: there are only four or so, they arrive in pairs about six months apart, and tradition reads them as the moments a story changes course.

  • 28 Aug , Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces
    A supercharged full moon in Pisces, a fated turning point around dreams, compassion, and the unseen, often a release or a revelation.
    And it does not arrive alone: opposition Mercury (Virgo 5.4°), 0.5° from exact, face to face — a tug-of-war, or a mirror; square Uranus (Gemini 5.6°), 0.76° from exact, friction — the two want different things and something has to give.
    T-square: Uranus in Gemini 5.6°, Moon in Pisces 4.9°, Sun in Virgo 4.9°, with Uranus at the apex, the point the tension pushes on. Its loosest side is 0.76° from exact. A T-square is two planets opposite each other with a third square to both — a right angle at each end of a see-saw. The odd one out carries the strain of the other two and is where the whole shape has to discharge.

    Eclipses are the year's fixed points: there are only four or so, they arrive in pairs about six months apart, and tradition reads them as the moments a story changes course.

Month By Month

  • January

    January carries the Full Moon in Cancer on the 3rd and the New Moon in Capricorn on the 18th.

  • February

    February carries the Full Moon in Leo on the 1st and the Annular Solar Eclipse in Aquarius on the 17th.

  • March

    March carries the Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo (Blood Moon) on the 3rd and the New Moon in Pisces on the 19th.

  • April

    April carries the Full Moon in Libra on the 2nd and the New Moon in Aries on the 17th.

  • May

    May carries the Full Moon in Scorpio on the 1st, the New Moon in Taurus on the 16th and the Full Moon in Sagittarius on the 31st.

  • June

    June carries the New Moon in Gemini on the 15th and the Full Moon in Capricorn on the 29th.

  • July

    July carries the New Moon in Cancer on the 14th and the Full Moon in Aquarius on the 29th.

  • August

    August carries the Total Solar Eclipse in Leo on the 12th and the Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces on the 28th.

  • September

    September carries the New Moon in Virgo on the 11th and the Full Moon in Aries on the 26th.

  • October

    October carries the New Moon in Libra on the 10th and the Full Moon in Taurus on the 26th.

  • November

    November carries the New Moon in Scorpio on the 9th and the Full Moon in Gemini on the 24th.

  • December

    December carries the New Moon in Sagittarius on the 9th and the Full Moon in Cancer on the 24th.

What This Means For You

This is the year's sky, the same for everyone. Laid over your own chart it becomes which of your houses each of those shifts lands in, and which of them touch your own Moon.