Full Moon in Gemini

It's an exact moment, not a day: the Moon reaches the point in Gemini directly opposite the Sun. The next one is on November 24, 2026 at 14:53 UTC, at 02°20′ Gemini — the table above shows the time in your own zone. It lasts an instant, though the Moon looks full for a night either side.

The lunar month is about 29.5 days, so twelve of them come to about 354 days — roughly eleven days short of a calendar year. The Gemini Full Moon therefore lands about eleven days earlier each year, then jumps forward a whole lunar month. That's how it drifts from late November to mid-December across the years above, at a new degree each time.

It can be. “Gemini Full Moon” names the zodiac sign the Moon is in; “Cold Moon” is a seasonal folk name — December's full moon. The same full moon can carry both names, one from astrology and one from tradition: of the years above, the Gemini Full Moon was the Cold Moon in 2024, 2025, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030.

Because a full moon is the Moon opposite the Sun. For the Moon to stand in Gemini, the Sun has to be across the zodiac in Sagittarius — so the Gemini Full Moon always comes during Sagittarius season, never during Gemini season. The New Moon in Gemini is the one that falls in Gemini season.

It's the backdrop for everyone. The Moon spends this peak in one house of your chart, lighting up that area of life; which house depends on your rising sign. The table above maps it for all twelve.

Yes — a full moon becomes a lunar eclipse when it falls near one of the Moon's nodes, the points where its path crosses the Sun's. In the years above, two of them are eclipses: the total lunar eclipse of December 20, 2029 and the penumbral lunar eclipse of December 9, 2030, flagged in the table. The eclipses of this year and the next are on the events calendar.

Yes — one in every year from 2016 to 2036. The Full Moon moves on by roughly a sign a month, so it comes back to Gemini about once a year; the date shifts, but the count holds.