New Moon, May 2027
6 May 2027, 10:58 UTC · Sun and Moon at 15.7° Taurus · Pluto stations retrograde 2 days later
The New Moon of May 2027 is exact 6 May 2027, 10:58 UTC, Sun and Moon at 15.7° Taurus, not an eclipse. Pluto stations retrograde 2 days later, 8 May 2027, 12:00 UTC at 7.1° Aquarius, for 163 days. Saturn crossed into its pre-retrograde shadow 4 May 2027. By local clock 6 May, 06:58 EDT in New York, 6 May, 11:58 BST in London, 6 May, 20:58 AEST in Sydney.
254 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Moon | 16.9° Aries | 16.9° Aries | ||
| First Quarter | 23.7° Cancer | 23.7° Aries | ||
| Full Moon | 0.6° Scorpio | 0.6° Taurus | ||
| Last Quarter | 8.3° Aquarius | 8.3° Taurus | ||
| New Moon | 15.7° Taurus | 15.7° Taurus | this page | |
| First Quarter | 22.2° Leo | 22.2° Taurus | ||
| Full Moon | 29.2° Scorpio | 29.2° Taurus | ||
| Last Quarter | 7.0° Pisces | 7.0° Gemini |
The Sun enters Gemini on 21 May 2027, 06:18 UTC.
What this means for everyone
Fixed earth, mid-sign
The Moon catches the Sun at 15.7° Taurus at 10:58 UTC on 6 May 2027, 89.5° from the nodes — the second decan of Taurus, the tradition's register of what lasts and what is worth keeping, and a new moon there as the seed of a month about consolidation. The reading is collective and the degree is universal; what gives this particular Taurus new moon a page of its own is the two slow planets in its week.
Saturn enters its shadow
A pre-retrograde shadow begins when a planet first reaches the degree it later turns direct at — from then on every degree it covers is one it retraces. Saturn crossed that line on 4 May 2027, 2 days before this new moon, at 21.0° Aries; it stations retrograde 9 Aug 2027, 18:00 UTC at 27.8° Aries and turns direct 24 Dec 2027, so the 6.9° between those degrees is the band this lunar month opens Saturn's slow review of. The tradition reads a shadow entry as a theme beginning to be re-read before the reversal is visible; the table gives the degrees to check it against.
Two days later, Pluto
Pluto stations retrograde 8 May 2027, 12:00 UTC at 7.1° Aquarius, 2 days after the new moon, and stays retrograde 163 days, to 18 Oct 2027. Pluto's annual retrograde is background for most of the year, but its station is a real instant, and one falling inside the first days of a lunar month is a detail the station table carries and a lunation calendar does not. Saturn entered its pre-retrograde shadow 4 May 2027, days before, on the way to its own station on 9 Aug 2027. Mercury enters Gemini 9 May 2027, 01:57 UTC. No planet is retrograde at the instant of the new moon; by its first quarter, one is.
The part the sky cannot read
A natal point near 15.7° of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius — the fixed cross — takes this new moon as an exact aspect; a natal point near Jupiter's station degree has had Jupiter parked on it for weeks; a natal point near 7.1° Aquarius is where Pluto stops. Three degrees to check against a chart, and a house that needs the birth time and place. The handoff is for all four.
What the instrument claims
An instant, a degree, two station degrees and the orbs to them, a shadow date. Not what the month brings.
For your chart specifically
The new moon is at 15.7° Taurus; Jupiter is parked at its station degree and Pluto stops at 7.1° Aquarius. Three degrees; whether any of them is yours is the chart's business.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The calendar marks the new moon and the Pluto station on their days; Life Cycles draws every retrograde as a band across your timeline, so a station degree on one of your natal points is visible at once.
Common questions
- When is the new moon in May 2027?
- 6 May 2027, 10:58 UTC, by local clock 6 May, 06:58 EDT in New York, 6 May, 11:58 BST in London, 6 May, 20:58 AEST in Sydney.
- What sign is the May 2027 new moon in?
- Taurus, at 15.7° Taurus. Tropical; a sidereal table places the same conjunction in Aries.
- Is the May 2027 new moon a solar eclipse?
- No — the conjunction is 89.5° from the nodes, about as far as it gets. The next eclipse is 18 Jul 2027, a penumbral lunar eclipse at 25.9° Capricorn.
- When does Pluto go retrograde in 2027?
- 8 May 2027, 12:00 UTC at 7.1° Aquarius, 2 days after this new moon; it stations direct 18 Oct 2027, 06:00 UTC at 4.7° Aquarius.
- When are the full moons before and after the May 2027 new moon?
- Before it, 20 Apr 2027, 22:27 UTC at 0.6° Scorpio; after it, 20 May 2027, 10:59 UTC at 29.2° Scorpio. The next new moon is 4 Jun 2027, 19:40 UTC at 13.9° Gemini.
- What house does this new moon fall in for me?
- From full birth details — time and place, not date alone — the app finds the house this new moon seeds and dates its contacts.
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