Full Moon in Aquarius, August 2027
Exact on August 17, 2027 at 09:28 (CEST). Read what this moment in the sky means and how it might play out for your zodiac sign.
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The facts at a glance
Full Moon in Aquarius
Exact moment
August 17, 2027, 09:28
CEST · 07:28 UT
Countdown
281 days
until the exact moment
Zodiac
Aquarius
24°11'
Event type
Full Moon
Full Moon in Aquarius
How often?
about once a year
almost always in July or August
Next time
August 5, 2028
Full Moon in Aquarius
Many feel a moment like this in the days before: themes come up, conversations turn to it. The exact time is the peak, not the start.
How we calculated this
Computed to the minute with the Swiss Ephemeris (NASA JPL data), tropical zodiac. The time is German time, Universal Time (UT) is the time at the prime meridian.
Source: planet positions from the Swiss Ephemeris (NASA JPL data), the same basis professional astrology software uses.
24°11' Aquarius
On August 17, 2027 the Full Moon falls in Aquarius.
What Aquarius adds
The sign gives the moment its colour. Aquarius stands for the themes of the day for everyone; for you it depends on where Aquarius sits in your chart.
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Who notices it most
- AquariusThe sign itself
- LeoOpposite
- TaurusAt a right angle
- ScorpioAt a right angle
With the Sun, Moon or Ascendant in one of these signs, many notice a day like this more clearly. Who do you know with one of them?
Why these four?
The moment sits at 24°11' Aquarius. The four signs lie right there, opposite, or at a right angle to it. Astrology counts these angles as the most noticeable: what happens there nudges, challenges or sets something in motion.
What the Full Moon can do
Depending on the area of life it falls into in a chart, it shows up differently. These are the twelve possibilities:
- Fresh startSelf & new starts
- Treasure huntMoney & values
- SignalTalk & close circle
- NestingHome & family
- HeartbeatLove & joy
- Clear-outRoutine & health
- MirrorRelationships
- Deep diveIntimacy & change
- WanderlustTravel & meaning
- SummitCareer & goals
- NetworkFriends & plans
- RetreatRetreat & dreams
A note to future you
Open on
August 5, 2028
Full Moon in Aquarius
- 1What is on your mind most right now?
- 2What should be different by then?
- 3Who do you want to tell about it then?
Write down the three answers today and read them again on August 5, 2028. Who joins you?
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Full Moon in Aquarius
On August 17, 2027, the Full Moon is in Aquarius. It's an invitation to check in with what you need to feel safe and settled. Find out which area of your life this moment highlights.
Read along
Do you put your phone on silent when the world gets too loud? Your Moon in your birth chart is exactly that. It shows what you need to feel safe. On August 17, 2027, we have a Full Moon in Aquarius. The Sun will fully light up the Moon. A Full Moon acts like a spotlight. It makes one specific theme in your life very clear. This is an invitation to look closely. What is it you really need right now? Find out which area of your life this Full Moon highlights. Work it out for free at theastroacademy.com.
What does this mean?
On August 17, 2027 at 09:28 (CEST), the Full Moon falls in Aquarius. Sun and Moon sit exactly opposite each other, which is why the Moon is fully lit. In the monthly cycle this is the high point. What has been building for two weeks comes into view, wraps up, or asks to be let go. This time the themes belong to Aquarius.
What does the Moon mean?
Your Moon is the inner life: moods, habits, home. It tells what feeds you, what triggers you, and how you get back to feeling safe when everything gets too noisy, whether that's tea on the sofa or a call to your sister. The Sun describes the person you want to be. The Moon is who you are with no one looking, down to your reflexes, longings and dreams.
What does the Full Moon mean?
Full Moon: the Sun and Moon stand opposite each other, so the Moon is fully lit. What has been building for two weeks becomes visible now. Many people feel it as a peak, a moment to notice what is really going on.
What does Aquarius mean?
Aquarius thinks in groups and breaks a rule once it stops fitting. It sees the bigger system (the group, the network, the next idea) and stays oddly cool about whatever is just in fashion. Where Aquarius is active, things get invented or rebuilt, and someone sketches the future.
Full Moon in Aquarius
The Full Moon in Aquarius, with the Sun opposite in Leo, brings freedom and belonging to a peak. What stirs quietly underneath becomes visible now and asks you to respond.
What it means for your zodiac sign?
A short reading for each sun sign. You feel the moment most where it hits a point in your own chart directly.
Aries
For Aries, a moment like this often just rolls along, like a tailwind on a bike ride. Where does something come easier right now? The focus is your feelings, home and needs: what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Fire signs often get going by doing. Pick one small action for the day that you will actually finish.
Taurus
As Taurus, you might get a nudge that feels awkward at first. Check whether it takes you somewhere useful later on. This moment shines a light on your feelings, home and needs, and what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Earth signs usually want something they can hold. Turn the impulse into one practical step.
Gemini
The sign Gemini sits at an easy angle to this event. Many people find days like this lighter. Is that true for you? These days, look closely at your feelings, home and needs, since what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Air signs like to sort their thoughts in words. Tell someone what is shifting, or write it down.
Cancer
As Cancer, you will probably pick up the undertones more than the main tune. They are quiet and can still be useful. The focus is your feelings, home and needs: what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. With water signs, feelings often speak first. Take a quiet moment and listen to what they are saying.
Leo
As Leo, you might get a nudge that feels awkward at first. Check whether it takes you somewhere useful later on. This moment shines a light on your feelings, home and needs, and what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Fire signs often get going by doing. Pick one small action for the day that you will actually finish.
Virgo
For Virgo this mostly happens in the background. Rather than an upheaval, maybe one small thing shifts. These days, look closely at your feelings, home and needs, since what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Earth signs usually want something they can hold. Turn the impulse into one practical step.
Libra
For Libra, a moment like this often just rolls along, like a tailwind on a bike ride. Where does something come easier right now? The focus is your feelings, home and needs: what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Air signs like to sort their thoughts in words. Tell someone what is shifting, or write it down.
Scorpio
As Scorpio, you might get a nudge that feels awkward at first. Check whether it takes you somewhere useful later on. This moment shines a light on your feelings, home and needs, and what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. With water signs, feelings often speak first. Take a quiet moment and listen to what they are saying.
Sagittarius
The sign Sagittarius sits at an easy angle to this event. Many people find days like this lighter. Is that true for you? These days, look closely at your feelings, home and needs, since what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Fire signs often get going by doing. Pick one small action for the day that you will actually finish.
Capricorn
As Capricorn, you will probably pick up the undertones more than the main tune. They are quiet and can still be useful. The focus is your feelings, home and needs: what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Earth signs usually want something they can hold. Turn the impulse into one practical step.
Aquarius
As Aquarius, you are standing in the middle of this one, since it happens in your sign. Can you feel it? This moment shines a light on your feelings, home and needs, and what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. Air signs like to sort their thoughts in words. Tell someone what is shifting, or write it down.
Pisces
For Pisces this mostly happens in the background. Rather than an upheaval, maybe one small thing shifts. These days, look closely at your feelings, home and needs, since what has been building comes into view and deserves an honest look. With water signs, feelings often speak first. Take a quiet moment and listen to what they are saying.
Tips & rituals
4 ideas for this day
- 1Write down what has built up over the last two weeks, and decide which parts get to stay.
- 2Let go of one thing on purpose: an expectation, an old argument or an appointment that only clogs your calendar.
- 3Step outside for a moment and look for the Moon. Two minutes of sky are often enough to unwind.
- 4Celebrate something you finished before you plan the next thing. The full moon is harvest time.
Where does this moment hit your chart?
The sky does the same thing for everyone. What reaches you depends on where this moment touches your birth chart. Take a free look at where it lands for you.
Your time windows
Your Time Windows
With dates, and with what you can check in each window.
- Your windowsCheck, prepare, act
- Emotional seasonWhich phase you are in
- DirectionWhere your focus is shifting
- Work & pressureWhat your work demands
- What emergesWhat ends and begins
- Your 90 daysA plan for three months
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Full Moon in Aquarius 2027 by the numbers
For the full moon on August 17, 2027 the Moon sits at 24°11' Aquarius, with the Sun directly across at 24°11' Leo. Opposition just means the Sun and Moon face each other across the zodiac, 180 degrees apart. Sunlight then falls on the whole side of the Moon that faces us.
This full moon coincides with an eclipse: Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius. So it gets a closer look than the other new and full moons of the year.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Exact moment | August 17, 2027, 09:28 (CEST) |
| Universal Time | 07:28 UT |
| Event type | Full Moon |
| Moon | 24°11' Aquarius |
| Sun | 24°11' Leo |
| Opposite lunation | New Moon in Virgo · August 31, 2027 |
| Also an eclipse | Lunar Eclipse in Aquarius · August 17, 2027 |
| Next occurrence | Full Moon in Aquarius · August 5, 2028 |
The new moon in Virgo follows about two weeks later, on August 31, 2027. It marks the other pole of the lunar cycle. You will have to wait until August 5, 2028 for the next full moon in Aquarius.
The Aquarius sign profile covers what Aquarius stands for: its element, modality and ruling planet. The 2027 astrology calendar lists every date of the year, and the page next full moon gathers the full moons still to come. The moon phase calculator works out which phase was in the sky on the day you were born.
How to read the data
- Moon position: the degree the Moon sits on at the exact moment. Every sign runs from 0° at its start to 29° at its end.
- Opposite lunation: this is the coming new moon, where the cycle begins again.
- A small test: on the evening of August 17, jot down one sentence about what seemed clearer to you that day. Dig the note out again at the new moon on August 31, 2027 and reread it.
How often is there a full moon in Aquarius?
Roughly once a year. Between 1900 and 2100 we count 216 full moons in Aquarius, with two in 15 of those years.
At a full moon, Sun and Moon face each other from opposite sides of the sky. With the Moon in Aquarius, the Sun has to be in Leo, so this full moon lands almost every time in July and August.
Counting every sign, a year holds 12.37 full moons. One lunar cycle takes 29.5 days, a little less than a calendar month, which leaves room for a thirteenth about every 2.7 years.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Counted | 1900–2100 |
| Full moons in Aquarius | 216 |
| Years with two | 15 |
| Years without | 0 |
| Usually falls in | July and August |
| Previous time | 29 July 2026 |
| Next time after this | 5 August 2028 |
| Full moons per year, all signs | 12.37 |
We ran every day from 1900 to 2100 through the Swiss Ephemeris, using the same rules as this calendar. All dates are in German time.
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Common questions
- When is the Full Moon in Aquarius in 2027?
- The Full Moon in Aquarius is on August 17, 2027 at 09:28 CEST (07:28 UT).
- What does the Full Moon in Aquarius mean?
- At the Full Moon in Aquarius, the Moon sits opposite the Sun and is fully lit. This sign's themes reach their peak. What Aquarius usually stirs below the surface comes into view and asks for a response.
- Which zodiac signs does the Full Moon in Aquarius affect most?
- Usually it's Aquarius, because the event takes place in that sign. Taurus, Leo, Scorpio often notice it as well. They sit square or opposite, and a tense angle like that simply means these signs rub against the theme. Check it against your own chart. Further down you'll find a short reading for all 12 signs.