| Date | Sign & Degree | Traditional Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3 | 13° Cancer | Wolf Moon | Year's first full moon |
| Feb 1 | 13° Leo | Snow Moon | Pre-eclipse season |
| Mar 3 | 13° Virgo | Worm Moon | Total Lunar Eclipse |
| Apr 1 | 12° Libra | Pink Moon | Easter-season moon |
| May 1 | 11° Scorpio | Flower Moon | First May full moon |
| May 31 | 9° Sagittarius | Strawberry Moon | Blue Moon (2nd in May) |
| Jun 29 | 8° Capricorn | Buck Moon | Solstice month moon |
| Jul 29 | 6° Aquarius | Sturgeon Moon | Pre-eclipse season |
| Aug 28 | 5° Pisces | Corn / Harvest Moon | Partial Lunar Eclipse |
| Sep 26 | 3° Aries | Hunter's Moon | Equinox-season moon |
| Oct 25 | 2° Taurus | Beaver Moon | Approaching perigee |
| Nov 24 | 2° Gemini | Cold Moon variants | Possible Supermoon |
| Dec 23 | 2° Cancer | Long Nights / Cold Moon | Possible Supermoon |
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2026's most calendar-curious month is May, which contains two full moons — May 1 in Scorpio and May 31 in Sagittarius. The second is what modern usage calls a Blue Moon: the second full moon falling within a single calendar month. Blue Moons happen once every two-and-a-half years on average, so 2026 is one of the lucky years that contains one.
Astrologically, having two full moons in one month means a single zodiac season (Taurus, in this case) is paired with two consecutive lunar harvests. Whatever was seeded at the previous new moon (April 17, in Aries) gets two distinct full-moon visibilities — one through the Scorpio lens (depth, intimacy, hidden resources) and one through the Sagittarius lens (meaning, expansion, the bigger view).
The Blue Moon on May 31 at 9° Sagittarius is also the year's Strawberry Moon — the traditional name for the late-spring/early-summer full moon.
A Blue Moon is the cosmos pausing to show you the same thing from a second angle before the season ends.
Find which house each full moon falls in: Enter your birth data in the free birth chart. The house containing each full moon's degree describes the life domain coming to peak visibility.
Two of 2026's full moons are lunar eclipses — the March 3 Worm Moon at 13° Virgo and the August 28 Corn Moon at 5° Pisces. Eclipse full moons carry significantly more weight than ordinary full moons.
An ordinary full moon marks a culmination that completes within the next two weeks. An eclipse full moon marks a culmination whose downstream effects play out over six months. The two eclipse full moons of 2026 therefore anchor the rest of the year. March 3 closes a window opened by the February 17 annular solar eclipse in Aquarius. August 28 closes a window opened by the August 12 total solar eclipse in Leo.
For dedicated coverage of these eclipses, see the 2026 Eclipses Complete Calendar.
The Algonquin / Farmer's Almanac names for each full moon — Wolf, Snow, Worm, Pink, Flower, Strawberry, Buck, Sturgeon, Corn, Harvest, Hunter, Beaver, Cold — were originally agricultural and seasonal markers. They tracked when wolves howled outside the village (January), when worms appeared in the thawing soil (March), when the first pink phlox bloomed (April), when strawberries were ripe (June), when bucks grew their new antlers (July), when corn was ready (September), and so on.
These names still carry their seasonal anchoring even for modern urban readers because the lunar cycle predates agriculture and the names mark the inherited folk-attention. Astrologically, the names add a layer of seasonal embodiment to the zodiacal interpretation. The Wolf Moon in Cancer (January 3, 2026) is not just a Cancer full moon — it is a Cancer full moon coming during the deep-winter hunger of the wolf cycle. The Strawberry Moon Blue Moon in Sagittarius (May 31) is a Sagittarius full moon at the peak of late-spring abundance.
The most consistent traditional practice for full moons is release. Where new moons are for setting intentions and planting seeds, full moons are for harvesting what has come to fruition and releasing what no longer serves. The two-week phase following a full moon — the "waning" phase — is considered the natural clearing period before the next new moon resets the cycle.
For each full moon in 2026, the sign it falls in describes the quality of the harvest or release. Cancer full moon: release what is not actually emotionally nourishing. Leo full moon: release what is performance rather than authentic expression. Virgo full moon: release the perfectionism that is preventing daily-life function. And so on through the year.
In the Tree of Life, the Moon rules Yesod, the Foundation — the subconscious layer beneath the material world. Full moons illuminate Yesod. They make visible, briefly, what is normally beneath the threshold of waking consciousness. Working consciously with full moons is, in Kabbalistic terms, walking the Yesod door.
Thirteen full moons in 2026, two of them eclipse moons, one of them a Blue Moon. The lunar year is fuller and stranger than usual. Mark the dates, watch the sky, and notice which two-week harvest each one is asking you to attend to.