The Moon today
As of 2:13 PM ET
Times in Eastern Time (ET)
Thursday, October 1, 2026
- Phase
- Waning gibbous
- Sign
- The Moon in Gemini
The Moon is not void of course.
Next sign change: the Moon enters Cancer on Oct 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM.
Next principal phase: Last quarter on Oct 3, 2026 at 9:25 AM.
Waning gibbous
The waning gibbous Moon sits about 225° from the Sun — more than half lit and shrinking, rising after dark. In a roughly 29.5-day cycle, it marks the turn from doing toward digesting. Astrologers associate it with reflection, and you might try that on: name one thing the full Moon showed you that's worth keeping, and one worth setting down.
The Moon in Gemini
With the Moon in Gemini — an air sign of words and ideas, and a mutable one, meaning built to change course — traditionally ruled by Mercury, your attention may prefer breadth to depth: tabs open, a question half-asked, a wish to talk something through before you feel it fully. The Moon spends about two and a half days per sign, so this weather is shared. Does naming the restlessness ease it?
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How these times are computed
Every time here comes from our own engine, built on astronomy-engine, an open-source ephemeris, and checked against independent references: the U.S. Naval Observatory's Moon phases, NASA's eclipse canon and Swiss Ephemeris outputs. The page is written in Eastern Time (ET); your browser shows the times in the zone you pick.
Void of course, traditional rule: from the Moon's last exact major aspect (conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition) to the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter or Saturn, until it enters the next sign. The modern rule also counts Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, so its voids can begin later and run shorter.
Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science: the positions are exact, and what they mean is interpretation.