Full Moon in Sagittarius

It's an exact moment, not a day: the Moon reaches the point in Sagittarius directly opposite the Sun. The next one is on June 19, 2027 at 00:44 UTC, at 27°33′ Sagittarius — 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 Sagittarius Full Moon therefore lands about eleven days earlier each year, then jumps forward a whole lunar month. That's how it drifts from late May to mid-June across the years above, at a new degree each time.

It can be. “Sagittarius Full Moon” names the zodiac sign the Moon is in; “Strawberry Moon” is a seasonal folk name — June's full moon, named for the strawberry harvest. The same full moon can carry both names, one from astrology and one from tradition: of the years above, the Sagittarius Full Moon was the Strawberry Moon in 2025, 2027, 2028, 2030 and 2031.

Because a full moon is the Moon opposite the Sun. For the Moon to stand in Sagittarius, the Sun has to be across the zodiac in Gemini — so the Sagittarius Full Moon always comes during Gemini season, never during Sagittarius season. The New Moon in Sagittarius is the one that falls in Sagittarius 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 partial lunar eclipse of June 15, 2030 and the penumbral lunar eclipse of June 5, 2031, flagged in the table. The eclipses of this year and the next are on the events calendar.

Almost always one, but not always: between 2016 and 2036, two fall in 2016 and 2035. Twelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of a year, so the dates slide — and now and then two Full Moons in a row both land in Sagittarius, a month apart.