New Moon, October 2026
10 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC · Sun and Moon at 17.3° Libra · not an eclipse · 5 planets retrograde
The New Moon of October 2026 is exact 10 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC, Sun and Moon at 17.3° Libra, and it is not an eclipse. Venus, the ruler of Libra in the tradition, is retrograde — it stationed 3 Oct 2026, 07:14 UTC at 8.4° Scorpio, 7 days earlier — and squares Mars exactly 10 Oct 2026, 21:31 UTC, 6 hours after the new moon. Mercury is in its pre-retrograde shadow, 14 days from stationing retrograde on 24 Oct 2026. On New York clocks 10 Oct, 11:50 EDT, on London clocks 10 Oct, 16:50 BST, on Sydney clocks 11 Oct, 02:50 AEDT.
47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Moon | 18.4° Virgo | 18.4° Virgo | ||
| First Quarter | 25.9° Sagittarius | 25.9° Virgo | ||
| Full Moon | 3.6° Aries | 3.6° Libra | ||
| Last Quarter | 10.3° Cancer | 10.3° Libra | ||
| New Moon | 17.3° Libra | 17.3° Libra | this page | |
| First Quarter | 25.3° Capricorn | 25.3° Libra | ||
| Full Moon | 2.7° Taurus | 2.7° Scorpio | ||
| Last Quarter | 9.4° Leo | 9.4° Scorpio |
The Sun enters Scorpio on 23 Oct 2026, 09:37 UTC.
What this means for everyone
A new moon, measured
The Moon catches the Sun at 17.3° Libra at 15:50 UTC on 10 Oct 2026 — a root of their separation found on an hourly Swiss Ephemeris lattice and interpolated to the minute. It is not an eclipse; the conjunction is 50.2° from the nodes. On its own that is a date and a degree. What makes it a page is the state the rest of the sky is in when it happens, and every part of that state is a figure from the same tables.
The ruler is retrograde
The tradition assigns Libra to Venus and reads a new moon by the condition of its sign's ruler. Here the ruler is moving backwards: Venus stationed retrograde 3 Oct 2026, 07:14 UTC at 8.4° Scorpio and turns direct 14 Nov 2026, 00:28 UTC at 22.8° Libra, retracing 15.6° over 42 days, so the whole lunar month from this new moon falls inside the retrograde. Read collectively, that is a month whose theme — Libra's weighing and pairing — is under review rather than being advanced, and it is the same month for everyone.
Hours later, a square
6 hours after the conjunction, Venus squares Mars exactly, at 7.3° Scorpio and 7.3° Leo (10 Oct 2026, 21:31 UTC). A planet-to-planet aspect is the sky's own, not a contact to any chart; it is listed because a new moon whose ruler perfects a hard aspect within its first day has a different opening from one whose ruler is quiet, and the instant is computable. At the new moon itself Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto are retrograde.
Mercury in the shadow
Mercury entered its pre-retrograde shadow on 4 Oct 2026 — it is already crossing the degrees it retraces after stationing retrograde 24 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC at 20.9° Scorpio. So this new moon opens a month in which Venus is retrograde throughout and Mercury joins it two weeks in. A month page can say that because all three instants are in its tables; a lunation calendar that lists only the lunation cannot.
The same conditions, a different chart
None of the above touches a particular person until it is placed. A natal point near 17.3° of Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn takes an exact aspect from this new moon; a chart with Venus's 15.6° retrograde arc across a natal planet has a dated three-pass transit that the rest do not. The house the new moon seeds needs a birth time. Those are the handoff's questions.
What the instrument claims
An instant, a degree, an eclipse verdict, the ruler's station table, one exact aspect and one shadow date — each computed, none interpreted into an outcome.
For your chart specifically
The new moon is at 17.3° Libra with its ruler retrograde. Whether the Venus arc crosses a natal point of yours is the chart's question; so is the house this month opens in.
How this appears in Cosmic KPI
The calendar marks the new moon with its degree; Life Cycles shades the Venus and Mercury retrogrades across your timeline with their shadow periods, and the day view lists the exact contacts to your points.
Common questions
- When is the new moon in October 2026?
- 10 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC: on New York clocks 10 Oct, 11:50 EDT, on London clocks 10 Oct, 16:50 BST, on Sydney clocks 11 Oct, 02:50 AEDT.
- What sign is the October 2026 new moon in?
- Libra, at 17.3° Libra. Tropical zodiac; a sidereal table places the same instant in Virgo.
- Is the October 2026 new moon an eclipse?
- No — 50.2° from the nodes. The next eclipse is 6 Feb 2027, an annular solar eclipse at 17.6° Aquarius.
- Is Venus retrograde during the October 2026 new moon?
- Yes: retrograde from 3 Oct 2026, 07:14 UTC to 14 Nov 2026, 00:28 UTC, so the entire lunar month that begins here falls inside it. Mercury stations retrograde 24 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC, two weeks after the new moon.
- When are the full moons before and after it?
- Before: 26 Sep 2026, 16:49 UTC at 3.6° Aries. After: 26 Oct 2026, 04:11 UTC at 2.7° Taurus. The next new moon is 9 Nov 2026, 07:02 UTC at 16.8° Scorpio.
- Where does this new moon fall in my chart?
- The house needs your birth time and place and the contacts need your degrees; the app takes both and returns the placement with every aspect dated.
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