Rhythm

The moon calendar

The moons of August 2026

New moon in Leo. Full moon in Pisces. Exact times below, in Central and UTC.

  1. Saturday, August 1

    Lughnasadh

    Midpoint between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. The first harvest — the earliest honest look at what the year will actually yield.

    Source: Traditional cross-quarter reckoning; Hutton, The Stations of the Sun (1996), ch. 27

  2. Wednesday, August 12
    12:37 pm Central
    Aug 12, 17:37 UTC

    New moon in Leo

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

    Moon in Leo: warm and visible. The stage, the heart, pride.

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

  3. Friday, August 21

    Consualia

    The harvest safely stored. Horses and mules went garlanded and unworked — the ones who did the labour rested first.

    Source: Ovid, Fasti III.199–228; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities II.31

  4. Thursday, August 27
    11:19 pm Central
    Aug 28, 04:19 UTC

    Full moon in Pisces

    Everything lit. What has been growing is visible now.

    Moon in Pisces: rest and drift. Imagination; the edges go soft.

    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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