Full Moon, May 2027
20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC · Moon 29.2° Scorpio opposite Sun 29.2° Taurus · the second Scorpio full moon in a row
The Full Moon of May 2027 is exact 20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC, the Moon at 29.2° Scorpio opposite the Sun at 29.2° Taurus — 19 hours before the Sun leaves Taurus for Gemini, so it falls at the last degree of its axis. It is the second full moon in Scorpio in a row: the first, 20 Apr 2027, was at 0.6° Scorpio. Not an eclipse; the hour reads 20 May, 06:59 EDT (New York), 20 May, 11:59 BST (London), 20 May, 20:59 AEST (Sydney).
268 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 | 0.6° Scorpio | 0.6° Taurus | ||
| Last Quarter | 8.3° Aquarius | 8.3° Taurus | ||
| New Moon | 15.7° Taurus | 15.7° Taurus | ||
| First Quarter | 22.2° Leo | 22.2° Taurus | ||
| Full Moon | 29.2° Scorpio | 29.2° Taurus | this page | |
| Last Quarter | 7.0° Pisces | 7.0° Gemini | ||
| New Moon | 13.9° Gemini | 13.9° Gemini | ||
| First Quarter | 20.3° Virgo | 20.3° Gemini |
The Sun enters Gemini on 21 May 2027, 06:18 UTC.
What this means for everyone
The last degree
The Sun enters Gemini at 21 May 2027, 06:18 UTC. 19 hours before that, the Moon reaches the point opposite it: 29.2° Scorpio against 29.2° Taurus, exact at 10:59 UTC on 20 May 2027. A full moon that falls just before a solar ingress lands at the very end of its axis, and this one is at 29.2° — the twenty-ninth degree, which the tradition calls anaretic and reads as a sign at the point of being finished with. A month earlier the full moon was at 0.6° Scorpio, 20 Apr 2027: the same sign, its first degree. Two Scorpio full moons in a row, one at each end, is what the backward drift of the lunation degree produces once every few years, and the table on the year page shows it happening.
Entered, then left
The tradition reads a sign's first degree as a theme arriving and its last as the theme resolved, and a pair of full moons spanning one sign from end to end as a single matter opened and closed across two months — for everyone, the same matter in the same sign. That is the collective reading, and it is only available to a page that has both instants. Pluto is retrograde at the instant, Pluto since its station 12 days earlier at 7.1° Aquarius.
The Blue Moon that is not one
The last-degree full moon comes in a month whose other lunation is the new moon of 6 May 2027; there is one full moon in May, so this is not a blue moon by the calendar-month rule, whatever the crowding in Scorpio suggests. What it is, in the traditional naming, is the Flower Moon. The name is the same everywhere; so is the degree.
The chart's end of it
Natal points near 29.2° in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius — the closing degrees of the fixed signs — take this full moon as an exact hard aspect, and a chart with points at both ends of Scorpio or Taurus has had two exact full moons in a month. Which house the Moon lights is the birth time's and place's to decide, and the sky has no view on it; that is what the handoff carries to the chart, along with the two degrees.
What the instrument claims
An opposition instant, the Sun's next ingress and the interval, the previous full moon's degree. Not the meaning of a sign's end.
For your chart specifically
The Moon is at 29.2° Scorpio — the last degree — a month after a full moon at the first. A natal point at either end of the fixed signs is where the pair becomes dated.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The calendar marks both Scorpio full moons with their degrees, a month apart; the day view lists each one's exact aspects to your natal points, with the orb and the time in your zone.
Common questions
- When is the full moon in May 2027?
- 20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC; the hour reads 20 May, 06:59 EDT (New York), 20 May, 11:59 BST (London), 20 May, 20:59 AEST (Sydney).
- What sign is the May 2027 full moon in?
- Scorpio — 29.2° Scorpio, its last degree — opposite the Sun at 29.2° Taurus, 19 hours before the Sun enters Gemini. The Flower Moon by the traditional naming. A sidereal ephemeris has it in Scorpio.
- Is the May 2027 full moon an eclipse?
- No — and not close, at 76.2° from the nodes. 18 Jul 2027 brings the next, a penumbral lunar eclipse at 25.9° Capricorn.
- Is this the second full moon in Scorpio in 2027?
- Yes. 20 Apr 2027, 22:27 UTC was at 0.6° Scorpio; this one, 20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC, is at 29.2° Scorpio. The full-moon degree drifts backwards by about a degree a month, so a sign is occasionally entered by one full moon and left by the next.
- When is the next new moon after the May 2027 full moon?
- 4 Jun 2027, 19:40 UTC at 13.9° Gemini. The new moon before this full moon was 6 May 2027, 10:58 UTC at 15.7° Taurus; the next full moon is 19 Jun 2027, 00:44 UTC at 27.5° Sagittarius.
- Which house does this full moon fall in for me?
- The house depends on when and where you were born; supply both and the app returns it with every dated aspect from this full moon.
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