Full Moon: May 2025
The short answer
The Full Moon in May 2025 is exact at 16:57 UTC on 12 May 2025, at 22.2° Scorpio.
The Full Moon in May 2025 is exact at 16:57 UTC on 12 May 2025, at 22.2° Scorpio.
Exact instant: 16:57 UTC on 12 May 2025, at 22.2° Scorpio.
| City | Local time |
|---|---|
| Sydney | 2:57 am AEST, May 13 |
| London | 5:57 PM GMT+1, May 12 |
| New York | 12:57 PM EDT, May 12 |
| Los Angeles | 9:57 AM PDT, May 12 |
| Mumbai | 10:27 PM GMT+5:30, May 12 |
| Tokyo | 1:57 AM GMT+9, May 13 |
The sky at that moment
3rd decan of Scorpio (22.2°), the Cancer third of the sign, traditionally ruled by the Moon.
- The Moon is 4.8° from an opposition to Uranus.
Nineteen years earlier, on Saturday 13 May 2006 (Sydney), the Full Moon fell at 22.4° Scorpio, 0.2° from this one: the Moon's phases come back to almost the same dates every 19 years.
Seeing it from Australia
From Australia this Full Moon looks upside down next to photos taken in the Northern Hemisphere: the dark plains that make the face sit the other way up, and it rises in the east as the Sun sets.
| City | Moonrise | Moonset |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane | about 5:13 pm AEST | about 6:37 am AEST |
| Sydney | about 5:03 pm AEST | about 7:01 am AEST |
| Melbourne | about 5:17 pm AEST | about 7:38 am AEST |
| Adelaide | about 5:22 pm ACST | about 7:26 am ACST |
| Hobart | about 4:50 pm AEST | about 7:45 am AEST |
| Perth | about 5:34 pm AWST | about 7:23 am AWST |
| Darwin | about 6:47 pm ACST | about 7:09 am ACST |
Where it falls, by rising sign
What a full moon tends to do in a house: Full Moon meaning.
| Rising sign | Where this full moon falls for you |
|---|---|
| Aries | Your 8th house: joint finances, debt, tax, inheritance, and what you only say in private. |
| Taurus | Your 7th house: your significant other, close business partners, and open opponents. |
| Gemini | Your 6th house: the actual work of your days, routines, and your body's upkeep. |
| Cancer | Your 5th house: romance, flirtation, children, and anything you make for the joy of it. |
| Leo | Your 4th house: home, family, where you are from, and your private life. |
| Virgo | Your 3rd house: conversations, messages, short trips, siblings and neighbours. |
| Libra | Your 2nd house: the money you earn, what you own, and what you think you are worth. |
| Scorpio | Your 1st house: you, your body, your appearance, the first impression you make. |
| Sagittarius | Your 12th house: rest, retreat, endings, and what you have not admitted yet. |
| Capricorn | Your 11th house: friends, groups, networks, and what you are aiming at next. |
| Aquarius | Your 10th house: your career, your public standing, and the people above you. |
| Pisces | Your 9th house: long trips, study, publishing, law, and what you believe. |
Where this time comes from
A lunation is the instant the Sun-Moon angle crosses 0° (New Moon) or 180° (Full Moon), found by scanning the real ephemeris hourly and bisecting to the exact minute. The same engine drives the full moon calendar.
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