Full Moon, October 2026
26 Oct 2026, 04:11 UTC · Moon 2.7° Taurus opposite Sun 2.7° Scorpio · 5 planets retrograde
The Full Moon of October 2026 is exact 26 Oct 2026, 04:11 UTC, the Moon at 2.7° Taurus opposite the Sun at 2.7° Scorpio. It is not an eclipse, and at that instant 5 of the eight planets that retrograde are retrograde: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury stationed retrograde 24 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC, 45 hours before, and Venus, retrograde, backed into Libra 25 Oct 2026, 09:09 UTC, 19 hours before. The instant is one everywhere, which is 26 Oct, 00:11 EDT in New York, 26 Oct, 04:11 GMT in London, 26 Oct, 15:11 AEDT in Sydney.
62 days — to exact, counted from 2026-08-25 02:47 UTC; the Moon is waxing gibbous at 90.9% 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 02:47 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.
The cycle around it
| Phase | Exact (UTC) | Moon at | Sun at | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Moon | 3.6° Aries | 3.6° Libra | ||
| Last Quarter | 10.3° Cancer | 10.3° Libra | ||
| New Moon | 17.3° Libra | 17.3° Libra | ||
| First Quarter | 25.3° Capricorn | 25.3° Libra | ||
| Full Moon | 2.7° Taurus | 2.7° Scorpio | this page | |
| Last Quarter | 9.4° Leo | 9.4° Scorpio | ||
| New Moon | 16.8° Scorpio | 16.8° Scorpio | ||
| First Quarter | 25.1° Aquarius | 25.1° Scorpio |
The Sun enters Scorpio on 23 Oct 2026, 09:37 UTC.
What this means for everyone
The Hunter's Moon, measured
The full moon after the Harvest Moon is the Hunter's Moon by the traditional naming, and this year it is the opposition of 26 Oct 2026, 04:11 UTC: the Moon at 2.7° Taurus, the Sun at 2.7° Scorpio, 180° apart to the minute on an hourly Swiss Ephemeris lattice. The Sun entered Scorpio 23 Oct 2026, 09:37 UTC, so the opposition falls in the first degrees of the Taurus–Scorpio axis. It is not an eclipse — 66.4° from the nodes, and the next eclipse of any kind is 6 Feb 2027.
5 of eight, retrograde
The unusual thing about this full moon is not its degree but its company. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all retrograde at the instant of the opposition — 5 of the eight planets that ever retrograde. Three of them are outer planets in the long annual retrograde that is background for most of any year; the other two are Mercury and Venus, the inner planets whose retrogrades are rare enough to read as periods. Mercury's began only 45 hours earlier, at 24 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC, 20.9° Scorpio. Venus, retrograde since early October, crossed back into Libra 19 hours before the full moon. A full moon lit under both inner planets retrograde is the month's culmination arriving in review mode, and that reading belongs to everyone alike.
Taurus against Scorpio
2.7° Taurus opposite 2.7° Scorpio — the fixed earth–water axis, which the tradition reads as what is held against what is shared, possession against exchange, the settled against the searching. A full moon holds the two up together, and this one does so in the first decan of both signs — the same axis, the same degrees, in every chart. It also squares Pluto, which stationed direct 10 days earlier at 3.0° Aquarius and has barely moved since: the Moon's square to it is within 0.3° at the instant of the opposition.
What the chart adds
Any natal point sitting within a degree or two of 2.7° in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius gets an exact hard aspect from this full moon; a chart with a natal point in Mercury's retrograde arc has a separate, dated transit running at the same time. Neither can be read from the sky alone, and the house the Moon falls in needs a birth time and place. The handoff below carries those questions to the chart.
What the instrument claims
An instant, two degrees, an eclipse verdict, a retrograde census and two dated events either side. Not an outcome for the month, and not advice about Mercury.
For your chart specifically
The Moon is at 2.7° Taurus. Its exact contacts land only on natal points near that degree of a fixed sign; the retrograde arcs of Mercury and Venus are separate transits for the charts they cross.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The calendar marks the full moon with its degree and the day view lists its exact aspects to your points; Life Cycles shades both inner-planet retrogrades across your timeline.
Common questions
- When is the full moon in October 2026?
- 26 Oct 2026, 04:11 UTC, which is 26 Oct, 00:11 EDT in New York, 26 Oct, 04:11 GMT in London, 26 Oct, 15:11 AEDT in Sydney. It is the Hunter's Moon, the full moon after the Harvest Moon.
- What sign is the October 2026 full moon in?
- Taurus, at 2.7° Taurus, opposite the Sun at 2.7° Scorpio. Tropical degrees; the sidereal frame puts the same Moon in Aries.
- Is the October 2026 full moon an eclipse?
- No. The Moon is 66.4° from the lunar nodes. The next eclipse is 6 Feb 2027, 15:59 UTC, an annular solar eclipse at 17.6° Aquarius.
- Which planets are retrograde at the October 2026 full moon?
- Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — 5 of the eight. Mercury stationed retrograde 24 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC.
- When are the new moons before and after it?
- Before: 10 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC at 17.3° Libra. After: 9 Nov 2026, 07:02 UTC at 16.8° Scorpio. The next full moon is 24 Nov 2026, 14:53 UTC at 2.3° Gemini.
- What house does this full moon fall in for me?
- A house is fixed by the birth time and place. Supply both and the app locates 3° Taurus in your chart and dates the full moon's aspects to your natal points.
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