Full Moon, March 2027
22 Mar 2027, 10:43 UTC · Moon 1.5° Libra opposite Sun 1.5° Aries · 38 hours after the equinox
The Full Moon of March 2027 is exact 22 Mar 2027, 10:43 UTC, the Moon at 1.5° Libra opposite the Sun at 1.5° Aries — 38 hours after the March equinox (20 Mar 2027, 20:24 UTC), the first full moon of the astrological year, not an eclipse. The first Sunday after it is 28 Mar 2027. Or, by city, 22 Mar, 06:43 EDT (New York), 22 Mar, 10:43 GMT (London), 22 Mar, 21:43 AEDT (Sydney).
209 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 | 2.0° 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 | ||
| Full Moon | 1.5° Libra | 1.5° Aries | this page | |
| Last Quarter | 9.1° Capricorn | 9.1° Aries | ||
| New Moon | 16.9° Aries | 16.9° Aries | ||
| First Quarter | 23.7° Cancer | 23.7° Aries |
The Sun enters Aries on 20 Mar 2027, 20:24 UTC (the equinox).
What this means for everyone
The first full moon of the year that begins at 0° Aries
The tropical zodiac starts where the Sun crosses the equator northward, and that crossing — the March equinox — is the Sun's ingress into Aries — 20 Mar 2027, 20:24 UTC. 38 hours later the Moon stands opposite it at 1.5° Libra, one and a half degrees into Libra, and the year's first full moon is exact. The nearness is this year's arithmetic, not a rule; some years the first full moon after the equinox comes nearly four weeks on. This one comes in under two days, which makes it as early in the Aries–Libra axis as a full moon can fall — the same axis this site's September page reads from the other end.
The moon that sets a Sunday
The Western church dates its central feast from the first full moon on or after the equinox, and takes the Sunday after it. Counted from this instant, the first Sunday after the opposition is 28 Mar 2027. The church does not use this instant: its rule runs on a tabulated moon and a fixed equinox, which agree with the sky in most years and not in all, and this page makes no claim about which kind of year this is. What it computes is the astronomical relation — an opposition 38 hours past the equinox, and the Sunday that follows — and it says so.
Libra against Aries
1.5° Libra opposite 1.5° Aries — the cardinal air–fire axis, the other against the self, agreement against initiative. A full moon in the first degrees of both is the axis at its most primary — the tradition's reading of the season's first culmination, the same for every chart. Mercury clears its post-retrograde shadow 23 Mar 2027, 14:50 UTC, 28 hours after the full moon. Mars and Jupiter are retrograde at the instant.
For one chart
A natal planet or angle near 1.5° of Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn — the cardinal cross, and specifically its first degrees — takes an exact hard aspect from this full moon; anyone with an Aries or Libra point at the very start of the sign has the equinox and the full moon land on it within two days. The house the Moon lights is fixed by the birth time and place; the handoff exists to collect them.
What the instrument claims
An equinox instant, an opposition instant, the interval, the following Sunday. Not the church's calendar, and not a forecast.
For your chart specifically
The Moon is at 1.5° Libra, the Sun at 1.5° Aries, both in the first degrees of the cardinal cross. A natal point there is where the equinox and the full moon become a dated pair rather than a season.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The calendar marks the equinox and the full moon on their days with the exact times in your zone; the day view lists the Moon's contacts to your natal points with their orbs.
Common questions
- When is the full moon in March 2027?
- 22 Mar 2027, 10:43 UTC — or, by city, 22 Mar, 06:43 EDT (New York), 22 Mar, 10:43 GMT (London), 22 Mar, 21:43 AEDT (Sydney).
- What sign is the March 2027 full moon in?
- Libra, 1.5° Libra, opposite the Sun newly in Aries at 1.5° Aries. Tropical zodiac; a sidereal table places it in Virgo.
- Is the March 2027 full moon an eclipse?
- No — 43° from the nodes. The next eclipse is 18 Jul 2027, a penumbral lunar one at 25.9° Capricorn.
- Is the March 2027 full moon the first after the spring equinox?
- Yes: the Sun enters Aries 20 Mar 2027, 20:24 UTC and the full moon is exact 22 Mar 2027, 10:43 UTC, 38 hours later. The first Sunday after it is 28 Mar 2027; the church's Easter rule uses a tabulated moon rather than this instant and usually, not always, names the same Sunday.
- When are the new moons before and after the March 2027 full moon?
- 8 Mar 2027, 09:29 UTC at 17.5° Pisces, then 6 Apr 2027, 23:51 UTC at 16.9° Aries. The next full moon is 20 Apr 2027, 22:27 UTC at 0.6° Scorpio.
- Which house does this full moon fall in for me?
- It takes a birth time and place. Provide them and the app locates 1.5° Libra in your houses and dates each aspect it makes.
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