2026 · all times UTC
Next: new Moon in Libra
Every new Moon, full Moon and eclipse this year, with the sign each one falls in. Found by searching the ephemeris for the exact moment rather than copied from a table, so this page is right for whatever year you are reading it in.
Next lunation
New Moon in Libra
Sat 10 October at 15:50 UTC
Every lunation in 2026
| Date (UTC) | Phase | Sign | Eclipse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 January at 10:03 | Full Moon | Cancer | not an eclipse |
| Sun 18 January at 19:52 | New Moon | Capricorn | not an eclipse |
| Sun 1 February at 22:09 | Full Moon | Leo | not an eclipse |
| Tue 17 February at 12:01 | New Moon | Aquarius | annular solar |
| Tue 3 March at 11:38 | Full Moon | Virgo | total lunar |
| Thu 19 March at 01:23 | New Moon | Pisces | not an eclipse |
| Thu 2 April at 02:12 | Full Moon | Libra | not an eclipse |
| Fri 17 April at 11:52 | New Moon | Aries | not an eclipse |
| Fri 1 May at 17:23 | Full Moon | Scorpio | not an eclipse |
| Sat 16 May at 20:01 | New Moon | Taurus | not an eclipse |
| Sun 31 May at 08:45 | Full Moon | Sagittarius | not an eclipse |
| Mon 15 June at 02:54 | New Moon | Gemini | not an eclipse |
| Mon 29 June at 23:57 | Full Moon | Capricorn | not an eclipse |
| Tue 14 July at 09:44 | New Moon | Cancer | not an eclipse |
| Wed 29 July at 14:36 | Full Moon | Aquarius | not an eclipse |
| Wed 12 August at 17:36 | New Moon | Leo | total solar |
| Fri 28 August at 04:18 | Full Moon | Pisces | partial lunar |
| Fri 11 September at 03:27 | New Moon | Virgo | not an eclipse |
| Sat 26 September at 16:49 | Full Moon | Aries | not an eclipse |
| Sat 10 October at 15:50 | New Moon | Libra | not an eclipse |
| Mon 26 October at 04:12 | Full Moon | Taurus | not an eclipse |
| Mon 9 November at 07:02 | New Moon | Scorpio | not an eclipse |
| Tue 24 November at 14:53 | Full Moon | Gemini | not an eclipse |
| Wed 9 December at 00:52 | New Moon | Sagittarius | not an eclipse |
| Thu 24 December at 01:28 | Full Moon | Cancer | not an eclipse |
Void of course Moon, next fortnight
The stretch between the Moon's last aspect in a sign and its entry into the next. Traditionally read as a poor time to start something, which is an electional judgement rather than a prediction about the day.
| Goes void | Last aspect | Ends | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 29 September at 23:41 | square jupiter | enters Gemini, Wed 30 September at 17:26 | 17.76h |
| Fri 2 October at 03:06 | sextile jupiter | enters Cancer, Fri 2 October at 19:54 | 16.8h |
| Sat 3 October at 15:13 | square saturn | enters Leo, Sun 4 October at 22:54 | 31.68h |
| Mon 5 October at 20:38 | sextile sun | enters Virgo, Wed 7 October at 02:52 | 30.24h |
| Wed 7 October at 19:13 | sextile mercury | enters Libra, Fri 9 October at 08:11 | 36.96h |
| Sat 10 October at 23:31 | sextile jupiter | enters Scorpio, Sun 11 October at 15:21 | 15.84h |
Counted against the classical bodies only: sun, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn, and the five Ptolemaic aspects. That matters, because most software silently includes the outer planets, which shortens every void period and sometimes removes it altogether. A void Moon table that does not state its rule cannot be checked against any other.
How this was worked out
A new Moon is the moment the Moon and Sun share the same zodiac longitude, and a full Moon the moment they are exactly opposite. Both are found by bisecting the ephemeris to the minute, so the times above are exact rather than rounded to a day.
An eclipse needs the lunation to fall near a lunar node, which is the same as the Moon having almost no ecliptic latitude at that moment. That test finds them. Which kind each one is then comes from the geometry on the day: how far the shadow’s axis passes from the centre of the Earth, and how the apparent sizes of the Sun and Moon compare, since both orbits are ellipses and the two discs are within a few per cent of each other. A solar eclipse is total when the Moon is the larger of the two and annular when it is not.
What this page still does not tell you is where on Earth to stand. Working out the track a shadow cuts across the ground is a different and much harder problem than working out what kind of shadow it is, and nothing here attempts it. The times are UTC, and an eclipse listed here may well be below your horizon.
4 eclipses in 2026. Every year has between four and seven.
Where these fall in your chart
A lunation matters most where it lands in your own chart, which needs a birth time rather than a sign.