Full Moon June 2026: the Strawberry Moon in Capricorn

Detail	June 2026 full moon
Date	Monday, June 29, 2026
Time, US Eastern	7:57 p.m. EDT
Time, UTC	23:57 UTC
Moon sign	Capricorn, about 8 degrees
Sun opposite	Cancer
Traditional name	Strawberry Moon
Eclipse	none
Previous new moon	June 14, 10:54 p.m. EDT, in Gemini
Next full moon	July 29 in Aquarius
All 2026 full moons	Full moon 2026 calendar

The first full moon of summer

The June solstice arrived on Sunday, June 21, at 4:24 a.m. EDT, and this was the first full moon after it. Around midsummer the full Moon rides lower in the sky than at any other time of year, since it sits opposite a Sun that is riding high. Seen low over the trees on a June evening, it often looks golden.

The name Strawberry Moon comes from the almanac tradition: June is when wild strawberries ripen in the northeastern US and Canada. Like all the traditional moon names, it is a seasonal label from folk calendars, and the Moon itself looks no different from any other month's.

Date lines and clocks

This full moon came at 23:57 UTC, three minutes before midnight on that clock. That puts it on June 29 in the Americas and on June 30 in Europe and beyond, so you will see both dates in published lists, and both are right for their time zones. The lunar calendar settles it for your own location.

What astrologers saw in it

On the astronomy side, the Moon stood at about 8 degrees of Capricorn in the tropical zodiac, opposite the Sun in Cancer. The interpretation works with that pair of signs. Cancer, home of the Sun this month, is read as family, home and emotional safety. Capricorn, where the full moon fell, is read as career, structure and the long climb toward a goal. The tradition reads this axis as the familiar tug between private life and public duty, and asks which one has been running the show.

The timing added a twist. Mercury stationed retrograde in Cancer at 1:36 p.m. EDT the same day, about six hours before the full moon. Astrologers treat a station as a point where a planet's themes feel especially strong, so the June full moon arrived with a reminder to double-check plans, messages and travel. The retrograde ran until July 23, and the Mercury retrograde tool shows its shadow dates too.

How to read it for yourself

Check your birth chart for anything near 8 degrees of Capricorn or Cancer, or of Aries or Libra. Those placements met this full moon most directly. Otherwise, look at the house where early Capricorn sits. Whatever lives in that part of your chart is read as what the full moon asked you to measure, perhaps a project at work, perhaps a responsibility that had grown heavier than you meant it to.

The months around it

The cycle began at the new moon of June 14 in Gemini, 10:54 p.m. EDT. Before that came the May 2026 full moons, two of them, including the blue moon of May 31 in Sagittarius. After it came the July 2026 full moon in Aquarius. The full moon 2026 calendar lists all thirteen full moons, and how to survive Mercury retrograde is a practical companion for the weeks that followed this one.