New Moon in Aries

It's an exact moment, not a day: the Moon catches up with the Sun at the same degree of Aries and goes dark. The next one is on April 6, 2027 at 23:51 UTC, at 16°57′ Aries — the table above shows the time in your own zone. The Moon stays hidden for a night or two around it.

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 Aries New Moon therefore lands about eleven days earlier each year, then jumps forward a whole lunar month. That's how it drifts from late March to mid-April across the years above, at a new degree each time.

Because it fell close to one of the Moon's nodes, so the Moon covered part of the Sun from parts of the Earth: the partial solar eclipse of March 29, 2025. A New Moon only becomes an eclipse when it lands near a node, which is why most don't.

You can, but many astrologers suggest waiting. Eclipses are read as fated and outside your control — better observed than seeded. A regular New Moon is the traditional time for intentions; if this one is an eclipse, some people simply note what arrives and set intentions at the next ordinary lunation instead.

The New Moon is a single moment — the Moon and Sun meeting at one degree of Aries. Aries season is the whole month or so the Sun spends crossing Aries. The New Moon always falls inside Aries season, but they're different scales: one instant versus one month.

It's the backdrop for everyone. This New Moon opens one house of your chart — the area of life where a fresh cycle can begin; which house depends on your rising sign. The table above maps it for all twelve.

Almost always one, but not always: between 2016 and 2036, two fall in 2023. Twelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of a year, so the dates slide — and now and then two New Moons in a row both land in Aries, a month apart.