Moon phase today: the lunar day and the Moon’s sign
Today’s Moon, worked out for the moment you open the page: its phase, how much of it is lit, the lunar day, the sign it is in, and the next new and full moon in your own time.
The Moon now
Reading the sky…
New moons and full moons 2026–2027
Times are in UTC.
2026
| Moon | Date and time |
|---|---|
| Full moon in Cancer | |
| New moon in Capricorn | |
| Full moon in Leo | |
| New moon in Aquarius | |
| Full moon in Virgo | |
| New moon in Pisces | |
| Full moon in Libra | |
| New moon in Aries | |
| Full moon in Scorpio | |
| New moon in Taurus | |
| Full moon in Sagittarius | |
| New moon in Gemini | |
| Full moon in Capricorn | |
| New moon in Cancer | |
| Full moon in Aquarius | |
| New moon in Leo | |
| Full moon in Pisces | |
| New moon in Virgo | |
| Full moon in Aries | |
| New moon in Libra | |
| Full moon in Taurus | |
| New moon in Scorpio | |
| Full moon in Gemini | |
| New moon in Sagittarius | |
| Full moon in Cancer |
2027
| Moon | Date and time |
|---|---|
| New moon in Capricorn | |
| Full moon in Leo | |
| New moon in Aquarius | |
| Full moon in Virgo | |
| New moon in Pisces | |
| Full moon in Libra | |
| New moon in Aries | |
| Full moon in Scorpio | |
| New moon in Taurus | |
| Full moon in Scorpio | |
| New moon in Gemini | |
| Full moon in Sagittarius | |
| New moon in Cancer | |
| Full moon in Capricorn | |
| New moon in Leo | |
| Full moon in Aquarius | |
| New moon in Virgo | |
| Full moon in Pisces | |
| New moon in Libra | |
| Full moon in Aries | |
| New moon in Scorpio | |
| Full moon in Taurus | |
| New moon in Sagittarius | |
| Full moon in Gemini | |
| New moon in Capricorn |
The panel at the top of this page reads the Moon for the moment you open it: its phase, how much of its disc is lit, the day of the lunar month, the zodiac sign it is crossing and the degree it has reached, whether it is void of course and until when, and the next new and full moon in your own time zone. Below it, a table lists every new and full moon of the calendar's years to the minute, in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
What follows explains each of those numbers — the astronomy first, then what the astrological tradition reads into it. None of it is a forecast. The Moon's rhythm is one of the oldest ways people have marked time, and here it is offered as a way of noticing the month you are in, for reflection and entertainment rather than prediction.
The eight phases
The Moon gives off no light of its own: what we see is the half of it that faces the Sun, from an angle that changes through the month. At the new moon it stands between the Earth and the Sun, its lit side turned away, lost in the Sun's glare. Over the next week a waxing crescent grows in the evening sky until the first quarter, when half the disc is lit. The waxing gibbous follows, then the full moon, opposite the Sun and lit whole, rising as the Sun sets. The waning gibbous, the last quarter and the waning crescent then take the light back until the next new moon.
Four of these names are instants that astronomers time to the minute — new moon, first quarter, full moon and last quarter — and four are the stretches between them, so the phase named on the panel covers days, not only the exact moment. The lit fraction is a separate number, and it does not grow evenly: it changes fastest around the quarters and slowest around the new and the full moon. For about two days either side of the full moon, more than ninety-five percent of the disc is lit, which is why the Moon looks full for several nights in a row.
Why a lunar month is about 29.5 days
Measured against the stars, the Moon goes once around the Earth in about 27.3 days. In that time, though, the Earth has carried it a good way along its own orbit around the Sun, so the Moon needs a little over two days more to return to the same angle with the Sun and show the same phase again. That longer cycle, from one new moon to the next, is the synodic month, and it averages 29.53 days.
The average hides a real spread. Because the orbits are ellipses, a single lunar month can run from about 29.3 to about 29.8 days, which is why the dates in the table do not fall at even intervals. Twelve lunar months come to about 354 days, eleven short of a calendar year, so every two or three years a calendar year holds thirteen full moons, and now and then a single month holds two — the second is what one popular usage calls a blue moon.
The lunar day, counted two ways
The lunar day is the day of the lunar month, and there are two ways of counting it. This page counts from the exact moment of the new moon: the first twenty-four hours after it are day one, the next twenty-four are day two, and so on up to the thirtieth, which the next new moon cuts short. Counted this way, the lunar day is one number for the whole planet at any given moment, wherever you happen to read it.
The traditional reckoning, the one popular lunar calendars follow, counts from moonrise at the reader's own place. Day one runs from the new moon to the first moonrise after it — anything from a few minutes to about a day — and every moonrise after that begins the next, so a month holds twenty-nine or thirty lunar days and two cities can be on different days at once. The two counts can differ by a day. In the Vanteia app, the lunar page counts from moonrise where a signed-in reader says they live, or at the birthplace when that is the only place on file, and says which reckoning it used.
The Moon in the signs
The Moon is the fastest body in the astrological sky. It crosses the whole zodiac in about 27.3 days, moving some twelve to fifteen degrees a day, so it spends roughly two to two and a half days in each sign. The panel gives the sign it is crossing now, in the tropical zodiac of Western astrology, and the degree it has reached within that sign, from 0 to 29: when the number is high, the next sign is close.
Astrology reads the Moon's sign as the emotional weather of the day — the mood a sign lends to what people feel and need rather than to what they do. The tradition hears the Moon in a fire sign as quick to warm, in an earth sign as steadying, in an air sign as talkative and curious, and in a water sign as tender and inward. It can be worth asking whether the day's mood matches the sign's reputation, and what the difference tells you when it does not.
When the Moon is void of course
The Moon is void of course from the moment it makes its last major aspect in a sign — a conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition to the Sun or a planet — until it enters the next sign. A void can last a few minutes or a day and more. The panel says whether the Moon is void now and when the stretch ends, which is always the moment it changes sign.
The tradition reads a void Moon as a pause between chapters: a stretch for finishing, reviewing and resting rather than for starting something new. It describes the sky; it does not tell you what to do. Calendars disagree about voids more than about anything else on this page, because astrologers differ over which planets count, so a void here can begin at a different time from one in a printed almanac, even though both end as the Moon changes sign.
Eclipses and supermoons
An eclipse is a new or full moon that falls near one of the two points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's: at a new moon the Moon can cover the Sun, and at a full moon the Earth's shadow falls across the Moon. A year holds between four and seven of them, in seasons about six months apart. This site's astrology calendar lists every solar and lunar eclipse, and every new moon, quarter and full moon, computed to the minute, with the place in the zodiac where each one falls.
Supermoon is a word from astrology rather than astronomy, coined in 1979 for a new or full moon close to the Moon's nearest approach to the Earth. A full moon at that point looks up to about fourteen percent larger and noticeably brighter than one at the far end of the orbit, but sources draw the line in different places, which is why their lists of supermoons disagree. The tradition reads a supermoon, like an eclipse, as a lunation with the volume turned up.
Reading your month by the Moon
Astrology reads the lunar month as a small cycle of its own: the new moon for intentions and quiet beginnings, the waxing half for building, the full moon for culmination and seeing clearly, and the waning half for sorting, releasing and rest. None of that says what a month holds. It is a frame for noticing: what did you set out to do at the last new moon, what has come into the light since, and what is ready to be put down?
In the Vanteia app, the lunar page shows the same sky — with the planets that are retrograde that day — and a few sentences about what the day's Moon might mean, one note a day in each language, the same for everyone and open without an account. With a birth chart on file, it can add which of your own houses the Moon is crossing, and a question can be taken from there into a full reading. Like everything on Vanteia, it is for reflection and entertainment, not a forecast.
Updated September 27, 2026