New Moon in Cancer

It's an exact moment, not a day: the Moon catches up with the Sun at the same degree of Cancer and goes dark. The next one is on July 4, 2027 at 03:02 UTC, at 11°57′ Cancer — 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 Cancer New Moon therefore lands about eleven days earlier each year, then jumps forward a whole lunar month. That's how it drifts from late June to late July across the years above, at a new degree each time.

Yes — when it falls close to one of the Moon's nodes, the Moon passes in front of the Sun, wholly or in part, and the New Moon becomes a solar eclipse. The next Cancer New Moon that does is the total solar eclipse of July 22, 2028.

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 Cancer. Cancer season is the whole month or so the Sun spends crossing Cancer. The New Moon always falls inside Cancer 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 2020 and 2028. 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 Cancer, a month apart.