New Moon in Leo

It's an exact moment, not a day: the Moon catches up with the Sun at the same degree of Leo and goes dark. The next one is on August 2, 2027 at 10:05 UTC, at 09°55′ Leo — 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 Leo New Moon therefore lands about eleven days earlier each year, then jumps forward a whole lunar month. That's how it drifts from late July to mid-August 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 the whole Sun from parts of the Earth: the total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026. 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 Leo. Leo season is the whole month or so the Sun spends crossing Leo. The New Moon always falls inside Leo 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 2017 and 2036. 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 Leo, a month apart.