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New Moon in Aquarius: Dates, Degrees and Meaning

New Moon in Aquarius is a beginning: the group, the principle, the thing that outlives your part in it. 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 September 26, 2026Dates checked September 26, 20265 min read
Chart wheel showing the new moon with the Moon in Aquarius and the Sun in Aquarius
New Moon in Aquarius: Moon in Aquarius, Sun in Aquarius.
The short answerNew Moon in Aquarius is a beginning in the territory Aquarius covers, which the old keyword sums up as "I know". In practice: the group, the principle, the thing that outlives your part in it. The Sun is in Aquarius too, because a new moon happens when they meet. The next one is February 6, 2027, 10:56 AM ET.

Every New Moon in Aquarius, with dates

A new 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.

New Moon in Aquarius: the next few
DateExact degreeAlso an eclipse?
February 6, 202717°38' AquariusYes, a annular solar eclipse
January 26, 20286°11' AquariusYes, a annular solar eclipse
February 13, 202925°01' AquariusNo
February 2, 203013°52' AquariusNo
January 22, 20312°58' AquariusNo

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 new moon at 12 degrees of Aquarius is a significant week for somebody with a planet at 11 degrees of Aquarius 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 new moon actually is

At a new moon the Sun and the Moon are in the same degree of the same sign, which is why there is nothing to see: the lit face is turned away from us. Traditionally it is the start of the lunar month and the point for setting something going rather than finishing it.

The sign tells you the subject. Aquarius is Air, Fixed, ruled by Uranus and Saturn, and its keyword is I know. So a new moon here puts the group, the principle, the thing that outlives your part in it on the table.

New Moon in Aquarius at a glance
Moon inAquarius
Sun inAquarius
Element and modeAir, Fixed
Ruled byUranus and Saturn
Good forstart something small and specific
The Aquarius versionthe group, the principle, the thing that outlives your part in it

Why you cannot see a new moon

Because the lit half is facing away from us. The Moon is between the Earth and the Sun, so the side turned toward us is in its own shadow. A new moon is invisible by definition, and the thin crescent people call a new moon is already a day or two old.

Practically that is the argument for what the phase is used for: there is nothing to show yet. A new moon in Aquarius is for the group, the principle, the thing that outlives your part in it, and specifically for the version of it nobody else needs to know about for a fortnight.

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 new moon in Aquarius falls, by rising sign
Rising signHouse it lands inSo it is about
Aries11thfriends, groups and hopes
Taurus10thcareer and reputation
Gemini9thtravel, study and belief
Cancer8thshared money, intimacy and endings
Leo7thpartnership, marriage and open conflict
Virgo6thdaily work, health and routine
Libra5thromance, children and creative work
Scorpio4thhome, family and property
Sagittarius3rdtalking, learning, siblings, short trips
Capricorn2ndmoney you earn and what you own
Aquarius1styou, your body, how you come across
Pisces12threst, grief and what nobody sees

That table is the single most useful thing on this page. A new moon in Aquarius 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 new moon list of fourteen intentions is a wish list.
  3. The Aquarius version of the job: contribute without counting.
  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 Aquarius falls in your chart, which needs your birth time. The same new 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 New Moon in Aquarius?

February 6, 2027, 10:56 AM ET, at 17°38' Aquarius.

What is the New Moon in Aquarius good for?

Start something small and specific. The Aquarius version: the group, the principle, the thing that outlives your part in it.

Where is the Sun during a New Moon in Aquarius?

In Aquarius as well. A new moon is the Sun and Moon meeting in the same degree.

Does a new 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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