Full Moon: Meaning and Energy
See the moon phase for any date: a drawn moon disc, illumination percentage, lunar age and the traditional meaning of the phase.
Full Moon
Culmination and full visibility: emotions and results peak, and what was hidden tends to surface. Celebrate — and sleep with the curtains closed.
About this tool
At full moon the moon stands opposite the Sun, its entire disc lit — it rises at sunset, shines all night and sets at dawn. This is the midpoint of the 29.5-day cycle, around day fifteen of the lunar month.
Folklore gives the full moon its loudest meaning: culmination and full visibility. Emotions and results peak, what was hidden tends to surface, and lunar calendars mark it as the harvest of whatever the new moon seeded two weeks earlier.
To find the date of the moon at its fullest — or the phase of any night you care about — use the calculator behind this page: exact phase, illumination percentage and lunar age, computed right in your browser.
Example. The date 21 January 2000 returns a full moon, illumination 100 percent, and a lunar age of 14.7 days.
Limit. Age is a single synodic month of 29.530588853 days counted from the 6 January 2000 18:14 UTC new moon, not a full astronomical ephemeris.