Full Moon, April 2027
20 Apr 2027, 22:27 UTC · Moon 0.6° Scorpio opposite Sun 0.6° Taurus · every planet direct
The Full Moon of April 2027 is exact 20 Apr 2027, 22:27 UTC, the Moon at 0.6° Scorpio opposite the Sun at 0.6° Taurus, not an eclipse. It comes 15 hours after Sun entered Taurus and 19 hours after Venus entered Aries — a full moon less than a degree into both its signs. At the instant every one of the eight planets that retrograde is direct. New York reads 20 Apr, 18:27 EDT, London 20 Apr, 23:27 BST and Sydney 21 Apr, 08:27 AEST at that moment.
239 days — to exact, counted from 2026-08-25 04:22 UTC; the Moon is waxing gibbous at 91.3% illumination now.
With JavaScript on, this line becomes a live countdown with the Moon's current phase and illumination (POST /api/objects). Without it, the figure is correct as of the snapshot.
Computed 2026-08-25 04:22 UTC · Swiss Ephemeris 2.10.03 (pyswisseph) via POST /api/scan (Sun + Moon, hourly) and POST /api/eclipses · tropical zodiac, geocentric, times in UTC. The static figures are recomputed on every deploy; the live block refreshes when the page loads. Times are shown in UTC.
The cycle around it
| Phase | Exact (UTC) | Moon at | Sun at | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Moon | 1.5° Libra | 1.5° Aries | ||
| Last Quarter | 9.1° Capricorn | 9.1° Aries | ||
| New Moon | 16.9° Aries | 16.9° Aries | ||
| First Quarter | 23.7° Cancer | 23.7° Aries | ||
| Full Moon | 0.6° Scorpio | 0.6° Taurus | this page | |
| Last Quarter | 8.3° Aquarius | 8.3° Taurus | ||
| New Moon | 15.7° Taurus | 15.7° Taurus | ||
| First Quarter | 22.2° Leo | 22.2° Taurus |
The Sun enters Taurus on 20 Apr 2027, 07:17 UTC.
What this means for everyone
A full moon at the first degree
The Sun crossed into Taurus at 20 Apr 2027, 07:17 UTC; 15 hours later the Moon stood opposite it, at 0.6° Scorpio. A full moon this soon after a solar ingress falls at the very start of its axis — 0.6° into Scorpio, 0.6° into Taurus — which is as early as the geometry allows, since the opposition can only come after the Sun has entered the sign. Venus entered Aries 19 hours before the opposition, so the day of the full moon holds two ingresses and a lunation. And because the full-moon degree drifts backwards through the signs, the next full moon, on 20 May 2027, falls in Scorpio too — at 29.2° Scorpio, its last degree. Two full moons in one sign, one at each end of it.
Every planet direct
Of the eight planets that ever retrograde, none is retrograde at this instant. The five outer planets are each retrograde four to five months of every year, so a moment with all five direct at once is uncommon, and one that also has Mercury, Venus and Mars direct is rarer still — a few weeks a year, and this full moon is inside one of them. The tradition reads a sky with every planet in forward motion as a fortnight of unobstructed motion, and reads it collectively; the page's contribution is that the claim is a count from the station table, not a mood.
Scorpio against Taurus, at the threshold
The fixed water–earth axis — what is held against what is shared, the tradition's pairing of possession and exchange — with the Moon in Scorpio this time and the Sun in Taurus, the reverse of this site's October page. At the first degree of both signs the axis has just been entered; the reading belongs to the whole fortnight and to everyone in it.
What only a chart can add
Any natal point within a degree or two of 0.6° in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius takes this full moon as an exact hard aspect — and anyone with a planet at the very start of a fixed sign has the Sun's ingress and the opposition land on it inside a day. The house the Moon lights depends on birth time and place. Those are the handoff's questions, not the sky's.
What the instrument claims
Two ingress instants, an opposition instant, a retrograde count of zero, and a degree. It does not say the fortnight goes smoothly.
For your chart specifically
The Moon is at 0.6° Scorpio, the Sun at 0.6° Taurus, both at the first degree. A natal point at the threshold of a fixed sign is where this full moon becomes a dated transit.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The calendar marks the ingresses and the full moon on the same day with the times in your zone; the day view lists the Moon's exact aspects to your natal points, with the orb.
Common questions
- When is the full moon in April 2027?
- 20 Apr 2027, 22:27 UTC; New York reads 20 Apr, 18:27 EDT, London 20 Apr, 23:27 BST and Sydney 21 Apr, 08:27 AEST at that moment.
- What sign is the April 2027 full moon in?
- Scorpio, at 0.6° Scorpio — its first degree — opposite the Sun at 0.6° Taurus, hours after the Sun entered Taurus. The sidereal frame puts the same Moon in Libra.
- Is the April 2027 full moon an eclipse?
- No; at 73.6° from the nodes it is nowhere near one. The season's next eclipse falls on 18 Jul 2027: penumbral lunar, at 25.9° Capricorn.
- Are any planets retrograde at the April 2027 full moon?
- None. All eight planets that retrograde — Mercury through Pluto — are direct at the instant of the opposition.
- Why are there two full moons in Scorpio in 2027?
- Because the full-moon degree moves backwards through the zodiac by about a degree a month: this one falls at 0.6° Scorpio, and the next, 20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC, at 29.2° Scorpio — the same sign, entered at one end and left at the other.
- What are the new moons around the April 2027 full moon?
- 6 Apr 2027, 23:51 UTC at 16.9° Aries before; 6 May 2027, 10:58 UTC at 15.7° Taurus after. The next full moon is 20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC at 29.2° Scorpio.
- Which house does this full moon fall in for me?
- With your birth time and place entered, the app places 0.6° Scorpio in your chart and lists the aspects with times; without them the house is unknowable.
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