Moon in Aries

What Moon in Aries means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Moon is actually in Aries.

What Moon in Aries means

Your Moon in Aries feels things fast and wants to act on them — emotions arrive hot and pass quickly. Aries is a fire sign, so you tend to settle by doing something about what you feel, and you need room to be direct.

A sign placement reads the same in every house system.

These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.

The sign: Aries

Element
Fire
Modality
Cardinal
Polarity
Yang: outward, active
Ruler
Mars

Essential dignity

The Moon holds none of the four major dignities in Aries: no rulership or exaltation, no detriment or fall.

The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).

When the Moon is in Aries

The Moon spends about two and a half days in each sign and returns roughly every 27 days. Its next passes in Aries:

EntersLeaves
Sep 26, 2026, 10:23Sep 28, 2026, 14:39
Oct 23, 2026, 19:53Oct 25, 2026, 23:34
Nov 20, 2026, 05:52Nov 22, 2026, 10:09
Dec 17, 2026, 14:34Dec 19, 2026, 20:29
Jan 13, 2027, 21:13Jan 16, 2027, 04:43
Feb 10, 2027, 02:48Feb 12, 2027, 10:44

Times in UTC, to the minute.

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How this page is made

Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.