Moon Phases

Full Moon in Aries: Dates, Degrees and Meaning

Full Moon in Aries is a culmination: the point where holding your tongue stops being diplomacy. Every date for the next six years computed from the ephemeris, which ones are eclipses, and how to tell whether one is yours.

Chart wheel showing the full moon with the Moon in Aries and the Sun in Libra
Full Moon in Aries: Moon in Aries, Sun in Libra.
The short answerFull Moon in Aries is a culmination in the territory Aries covers, which the old keyword sums up as "I am". In practice: the point where holding your tongue stops being diplomacy. The Sun sits opposite in Libra, which is what makes it full. The next one is October 15, 2027, 9:47 AM ET.

Every Full Moon in Aries, with dates

A full moon lands in each sign roughly once a year, because the Sun takes a year to go round and the lunar month fits into it about twelve and a half times. These are computed from the ephemeris, in US Eastern time.

Full Moon in Aries: the next few
DateExact degreeAlso an eclipse?
October 15, 202721°59' AriesNo
October 3, 202811°00' AriesNo
October 22, 202929°16' AriesNo
October 11, 203018°11' AriesNo
September 30, 20317°26' AriesNo

The degree matters more than most pages admit. A lunation only means much for you personally if that degree is close to something in your own chart, within a few degrees. A full moon at 12 degrees of Aries is a significant week for somebody with a planet at 11 degrees of Aries and an ordinary one for everybody else.

What a full moon actually is

At a full moon the Moon is exactly opposite the Sun, which is why it is fully lit and why it rises as the Sun sets. Astrologically that opposition is the whole meaning: two ends of an axis, both visible at once, which is why full moons have the reputation for bringing things to a head.

The sign tells you the subject. Aries is Fire, Cardinal, ruled by Mars, and its keyword is I am. So a full moon here puts the point where holding your tongue stops being diplomacy on the table.

Full Moon in Aries at a glance
Moon inAries
Sun inLibra
Element and modeFire, Cardinal
Ruled byMars
Good forfinish, decide or let go of something already underway
The Aries versionthe point where holding your tongue stops being diplomacy

The Aries and Libra axis

A full moon is always an opposition, so it is never about one sign alone. The Moon in Aries wants i am; the Sun opposite in Libra wants i balance. Those two pull against each other and the full moon is the point where you can see both at once.

That is why full moons feel like a reveal rather than an event. Nothing new arrives. Something already running becomes impossible to keep ignoring, which is a different and usually more uncomfortable thing.

Which part of your life it lands in

The sign is the same for everybody. The house it falls in is not, and that is what decides whether a lunation is about your job, your money or your marriage. On whole sign houses, which is the system this uses, it follows directly from your rising sign.

Where a full moon in Aries falls, by rising sign
Rising signHouse it lands inSo it is about
Aries1styou, your body, how you come across
Taurus12threst, grief and what nobody sees
Gemini11thfriends, groups and hopes
Cancer10thcareer and reputation
Leo9thtravel, study and belief
Virgo8thshared money, intimacy and endings
Libra7thpartnership, marriage and open conflict
Scorpio6thdaily work, health and routine
Sagittarius5thromance, children and creative work
Capricorn4thhome, family and property
Aquarius3rdtalking, learning, siblings, short trips
Pisces2ndmoney you earn and what you own

That table is the single most useful thing on this page. A full moon in Aries is a career event for one person and a money event for another, and which one it is for you is fixed by a birth time rather than by a birthday.

What to do with it

  1. Check the degree in the table against your own chart. If nothing of yours is within about three degrees, this is a calendar entry rather than an event.
  2. Keep it to one thing. A full moon is better at letting one thing go than at resolving everything at once.
  3. The Aries version of the job: doing it before the plan is finished.
  4. Give it a fortnight. A new moon's results show at the full moon two weeks later; a full moon's clearing shows at the new moon two weeks after that.
What the Moon does and does not doThe Moon moves the tides because it pulls on an entire ocean. It does not measurably pull on a person: the tidal force across a human body is smaller than the force of the person sitting next to you. The large studies looking for lunar effects on births, psychiatric admissions and crime have not found them. None of that makes a lunar practice pointless. It makes it a calendar: a recurring, visible, shared prompt to stop and check what you are doing, which is a real use and an honest description of one.

If you want to know whether this one is yours

That depends on where Aries falls in your chart, which needs your birth time. The same full moon lands in your career house, your money house or your marriage house depending on what was rising when you were born. Here is how to find your birth time.

Questions people ask

When is the next Full Moon in Aries?

October 15, 2027, 9:47 AM ET, at 21°59' Aries.

What is the Full Moon in Aries good for?

Finish, decide or let go of something already underway. The Aries version: the point where holding your tongue stops being diplomacy.

Where is the Sun during a Full Moon in Aries?

In Libra, exactly opposite. That opposition is what makes the Moon look full.

Does a full moon affect everyone?

Only loosely. It matters to you personally when its degree is within a few degrees of something in your own chart. Otherwise it is a date in a shared calendar.

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