Full Moon November 2026: the Beaver Moon in Gemini

Detail	November 2026 full moon
Date	Tuesday, November 24, 2026
Time, US Eastern	9:54 a.m. EST
Time, UTC	14:54 UTC
Moon sign	Gemini, about 2 degrees
Sun opposite	Sagittarius
Traditional name	Beaver Moon
Eclipse	none
Previous new moon	November 9, 2:02 a.m. EST, in Scorpio
Next full moon	December 23 in Cancer
All 2026 full moons	Full moon 2026 calendar

A morning full moon on standard time

Daylight saving time ended on November 1, so this is the first full moon of the season quoted in EST. The exact moment, 9:54 a.m. on the East Coast, is 8:54 a.m. in Chicago and 6:54 a.m. on the Pacific coast, when the Moon is setting in the west as the Sun comes up. Europe gets it in the afternoon of the same day.

Since the instant falls after moonset for most of North America, plan to look up on Monday evening or Tuesday evening. The Moon rises close to sunset on both nights and looks full to the eye either way. Long November nights help here: the full Moon stays above the horizon for most of the dark hours. The lunar calendar shows the exact time and phase for your own place.

Where the name Beaver Moon comes from

Almanac lists in the US call the November full moon the Beaver Moon. The usual explanation points to late autumn, when beavers are busy finishing their lodges and the season for trapping them used to begin. The lists vary by region and by source, which shows how loose these traditions are. None of them is an astronomical term, and the Moon looks the same whatever it is called.

What the sky is doing, and what astrologers make of it

The astronomy is plain: the Moon sits at just over 2 degrees of Gemini in the tropical zodiac, directly across from the Sun near the start of Sagittarius. The Sun moved into Sagittarius on November 22, so this full moon opens the new solar month.

Astrologers read the Gemini and Sagittarius axis as a conversation between the small picture and the big one. Gemini covers news, errands, siblings and neighbors, and the words you use every day. Sagittarius looks for meaning, travel, teaching and the beliefs you live by. A Gemini full moon is often read as a moment when something you said, wrote or heard comes back into focus, and when it pays to check the details before you commit to a grand plan.

The timing fits that reading. Mercury, the ruler of Gemini, ended its retrograde in Scorpio on November 13 at 10:54 a.m. EST, and Venus made its own station back to direct that same evening. Tradition treats the weeks after a station as a time when stalled plans and conversations start moving again. Mercury's post-retrograde shadow, the stretch it needs to get back to where it turned, runs until November 30. How to survive Mercury retrograde explains what that shadow period is.

Reading it against your own chart

The general picture becomes personal once you know where Gemini sits in your chart. Pull up your birth chart and find the house that holds the first few degrees of Gemini. That house names the part of life this full moon lights up, and the house holding early Sagittarius shows what it is weighed against.

Planets near 2 degrees of Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo or Pisces have the closest contact. If your Sun, Moon or rising sign sits there, astrologers would read the days around November 24 as a busy stretch for you, with messages and plans in focus. If nothing in your chart is close, treat it as background. For the inner, emotional side of the picture, what your moon sign means shows how to read your own Moon.

Before and after the Beaver Moon

The lunar cycle that peaks here began at the new moon on November 9 in Scorpio, at 2:02 a.m. EST. That new moon fell inside the Mercury and Venus retrograde period, so whatever started then may only now be taking a clear shape.

The previous full moon was the October 2026 full moon in Taurus, the Hunter's Moon of October 26. The next is the December 2026 full moon in Cancer, the last of the year, on the evening of December 23 in Eastern time. Every date of the year sits in the full moon 2026 calendar, and the moon and eclipses guide explains how full moons and eclipses fit together.