Rhythm

The moon calendar

The moons of May 2026

Full moon in Scorpio. New moon in Taurus. Full moon in Sagittarius. Exact times below, in Central and UTC.

  1. Friday, May 1

    Beltane

    Midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Summer declared before it has fully arrived.

    Source: Traditional cross-quarter reckoning; Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (1996), ch. 22

  2. Friday, May 1
    12:23 pm Central
    May 1, 17:23 UTC

    Full moon in Scorpio

    Everything lit. What has been growing is visible now.

    Moon in Scorpio: depth. Secrets, shared money, nothing shallow.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

  3. Saturday, May 16
    3:01 pm Central
    May 16, 20:01 UTC

    New moon in Taurus

    The dark of the moon. A beginning that nobody can see yet.

    Moon in Taurus: slow and steady. Money, food, comfort, what lasts.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

  4. Sunday, May 31
    3:45 am Central
    May 31, 08:45 UTC

    Full moon in Sagittarius

    Everything lit. What has been growing is visible now.

    Moon in Sagittarius: distance and the big idea. Travel, learning, blunt honesty.

    Source: Computed from the Moon–Sun elongation (astronomy-engine).

Computed with astronomy-engine, which follows the NASA JPL ephemerides. Times are Central (Daylight or Standard as the date falls) and UTC; a moon is one instant for the whole world, so only the clock changes with the zone.

How to use the month

Start after the new moon. Review at the full.

The week after the new moon is for beginning what you decided on at the dark of the moon. The full moon is when it shows, and the days after it are for looking honestly at how it went. The last week before the next new moon is for finishing and clearing. That is the whole method, and the app runs a planner on it for people who run businesses.

The sign each moon falls in colours it. The lines under each moon above say what that sign is like; the house wheel says which of your own houses it lands in, from your rising sign.

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