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Full Moon in Virgo: Dates, Degrees and Meaning

Full Moon in Virgo is a culmination: the limit of how much you can fix for other people. Every date for the next six years computed from the ephemeris, which ones are eclipses, and how to tell whether one is yours.

The RubyAstro TeamPublished October 15, 2026Dates checked October 15, 20265 min read
Chart wheel showing the full moon with the Moon in Virgo and the Sun in Pisces
Full Moon in Virgo: Moon in Virgo, Sun in Pisces.
The short answerFull Moon in Virgo is a culmination in the territory Virgo covers, which the old keyword sums up as "I analyze". In practice: the limit of how much you can fix for other people. The Sun sits opposite in Pisces, which is what makes it full. The next one is February 20, 2027, 6:24 PM ET.

Every Full Moon in Virgo, 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 Virgo: the next few
DateExact degreeAlso an eclipse?
February 20, 20272°06' VirgoYes, a penumbral lunar eclipse
March 10, 202821°00' VirgoNo
February 28, 202910°24' VirgoNo
March 19, 203029°11' VirgoNo
March 8, 203118°25' VirgoNo

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 Virgo is a significant week for somebody with a planet at 11 degrees of Virgo and an ordinary one for everybody else.

One of these is an eclipseAn eclipse is a lunation that happens near one of the Moon's nodes, which is the only place the Sun, Moon and Earth can line up exactly. Eclipses are read as the same thing turned up: faster, less optional, and with effects that tend to show up over months rather than days. What the nodes are is covered here.

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. Virgo is Earth, Mutable, ruled by Mercury, and its keyword is I analyze. So a full moon here puts the limit of how much you can fix for other people on the table.

Full Moon in Virgo at a glance
Moon inVirgo
Sun inPisces
Element and modeEarth, Mutable
Ruled byMercury
Good forfinish, decide or let go of something already underway
The Virgo versionthe limit of how much you can fix for other people

The Virgo and Pisces axis

A full moon is always an opposition, so it is never about one sign alone. The Moon in Virgo wants i analyze; the Sun opposite in Pisces wants i believe. 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 Virgo falls, by rising sign
Rising signHouse it lands inSo it is about
Aries6thdaily work, health and routine
Taurus5thromance, children and creative work
Gemini4thhome, family and property
Cancer3rdtalking, learning, siblings, short trips
Leo2ndmoney you earn and what you own
Virgo1styou, your body, how you come across
Libra12threst, grief and what nobody sees
Scorpio11thfriends, groups and hopes
Sagittarius10thcareer and reputation
Capricorn9thtravel, study and belief
Aquarius8thshared money, intimacy and endings
Pisces7thpartnership, marriage and open conflict

That table is the single most useful thing on this page. A full moon in Virgo 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 Virgo version of the job: fix one thing properly rather than six badly.
  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 Virgo 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 Virgo?

February 20, 2027, 6:24 PM ET, at 2°06' Virgo.

What is the Full Moon in Virgo good for?

Finish, decide or let go of something already underway. The Virgo version: the limit of how much you can fix for other people.

Where is the Sun during a Full Moon in Virgo?

In Pisces, 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.

RubyAstro writes about astrology for reflection and self-understanding. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice, and none of it is a prediction of events. Read our full disclaimer.

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