Full Moon in Leo

It's an exact moment, not a day: the Moon reaches the point in Leo directly opposite the Sun. The next one is on January 22, 2027 at 12:17 UTC, at 02°14′ Leo — 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 Leo Full Moon therefore lands about eleven days earlier each year, then jumps forward a whole lunar month. That's how it drifts from late January to mid-February across the years above, at a new degree each time.

It can be. “Leo Full Moon” names the zodiac sign the Moon is in; “Snow Moon” is a seasonal folk name — February's full moon. The same full moon can carry both names, one from astrology and one from tradition: of the years above, the Leo Full Moon was the Snow Moon in 2025, 2026, 2028, 2030 and 2031.

Because a full moon is the Moon opposite the Sun. For the Moon to stand in Leo, the Sun has to be across the zodiac in Aquarius — so the Leo Full Moon always comes during Aquarius season, never during Leo season. The New Moon in Leo is the one that falls in Leo 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. None of the Leo Full Moons in the years above is an eclipse; the next is the total lunar eclipse of February 11, 2036. 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 Leo about once a year; the date shifts, but the count holds.