Full Moon, February 2027
20 Feb 2027, 23:23 UTC · Moon 2.0° Virgo opposite Sun 2.0° Pisces · penumbral lunar eclipse
The Full Moon of February 2027 is exact 20 Feb 2027, 23:23 UTC, the Moon at 2.0° Virgo opposite the Sun at 2.0° Pisces, a penumbral lunar eclipse with its maximum 11 minutes before the opposition. It falls between two retrograde re-entries: Mercury back into Aquarius 18 Feb 2027, 12:15 UTC (59 hours before) and Mars back into Leo 21 Feb 2027, 14:13 UTC (15 hours after). The Moon squares Uranus, parked at 1.6° Gemini since its station 13 days earlier, within 0.4°. Timed set against local clocks — 20 Feb, 18:23 EST New York, 20 Feb, 23:23 GMT London, 21 Feb, 10:23 AEDT Sydney.
180 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 | 2.2° Leo | 2.2° Aquarius | ||
| Last Quarter | 9.2° Scorpio | 9.2° Aquarius | ||
| New Moon | 17.6° Aquarius | 17.6° Aquarius | annular solar eclipse | |
| First Quarter | 25.3° Taurus | 25.3° Aquarius | ||
| Full Moon | 2.0° Virgo | 2.0° Pisces | penumbral lunar eclipse | |
| Last Quarter | 9.3° Sagittarius | 9.3° Pisces | ||
| New Moon | 17.5° Pisces | 17.5° Pisces | ||
| First Quarter | 24.8° Gemini | 24.8° Pisces |
The Sun enters Pisces on 18 Feb 2027, 21:33 UTC.
What this means for everyone
Penumbral
A lunar eclipse needs the opposition within reach of a node, and this one is 11.9° from it — enough for the Moon to cross the Earth's outer shadow but not the dark inner cone, which is what penumbral means: a dimming, visible to an instrument and barely to an eye. The eclipse search flags it all the same, and the page prints both instants — the maximum at 23:12 UTC, the opposition in longitude 11 minutes later at 23:23 UTC — because both are real and a table that gives one time without saying which cannot be checked.
Between two re-entries
A retrograde re-entry is a planet crossing back over a sign boundary it already crossed, and it is rare enough that a year has a handful. This eclipse has one on each side: Mercury, retrograde, re-entered Aquarius at 18 Feb 2027, 12:15 UTC, 59 hours before the opposition; Mars, retrograde, re-entered Leo at 21 Feb 2027, 14:13 UTC, 15 hours after the opposition. The Sun's own ingress into Pisces, 18 Feb 2027, 21:33 UTC, sits in the same window. Three boundary crossings inside three days around an eclipse is the kind of context a month page can show and a lunation table cannot, and every instant in it is refined to the minute.
Square Uranus, standing still
Uranus stationed direct 8 Feb 2027, 12:00 UTC at 1.6° Gemini and, 13 days later, has moved less than a tenth of a degree — so the Moon at 2.0° Virgo is 0.4° from an exact square to it at the eclipse, and the Sun at 2.0° Pisces the same. The tradition reads a Uranus square on an eclipse as the season's theme arriving with a jolt rather than a swell; read collectively, that is the texture of the fortnight for everyone. The Virgo–Pisces axis underneath it is the one this site's August page read the other way round — sorting against dissolving, the mutable pair.
The chart's part
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are retrograde at the instant. A natal planet or angle near 2° of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces receives the eclipse as an exact hard aspect; a natal point near 1.6° Gemini has Uranus parked on it as well. The house depends on birth time and place. Neither is a sky question.
What the instrument claims
Two instants, two degrees, a node distance, two re-entries and a station degree. It does not say what an eclipse brings.
For your chart specifically
The eclipse is at 2.0° Virgo, square Uranus at 1.6° Gemini. A natal point near either degree is where the fortnight stops being weather.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The Eclipse Pack in Life Cycles flags this eclipse against your natal planets and angles; the calendar marks the two re-entries on their days, and the day view lists the Moon's exact aspects to your points.
Common questions
- When is the full moon in February 2027?
- 20 Feb 2027, 23:23 UTC for the opposition, 20 Feb 2027, 23:12 UTC for the eclipse maximum — set against local clocks — 20 Feb, 18:23 EST New York, 20 Feb, 23:23 GMT London, 21 Feb, 10:23 AEDT Sydney.
- What sign is the February 2027 full moon in?
- Virgo — 2.0° Virgo, opposite the Sun at 2.0° Pisces, days after the Sun entered Pisces. In the sidereal zodiac it reads as Leo.
- Is the February 2027 full moon a lunar eclipse?
- Yes, a penumbral one — the Moon passes through the Earth's outer shadow only. Maximum 20 Feb 2027, 23:12 UTC; the Moon is 11.9° from the node.
- Which planets change sign around the February 2027 eclipse?
- Mercury, retrograde, back into Aquarius 18 Feb 2027, 12:15 UTC; Mars, retrograde, back into Leo 21 Feb 2027, 14:13 UTC; the Sun into Pisces 18 Feb 2027, 21:33 UTC.
- When were the eclipses of this season?
- The solar eclipse was the new moon of 6 Feb 2027, 15:56 UTC at 17.6° Aquarius; this is the lunar one. The next new moon, 8 Mar 2027, 09:29 UTC at 17.5° Pisces, is not an eclipse; the next eclipse of any kind is 18 Jul 2027.
- Which house does this eclipse fall in for me?
- The page cannot know; the app can once it has your birth time and place — it places 2.0° Virgo and dates the eclipse's contacts to your points.
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