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Lunar eclipse August 28, 2026: see which house the 4° Pisces blood moon hits in your birth chart, free, plus the aspects it makes to your planets. Timing and magnitude inside.
In Pisces, the traditional lunar-eclipse themes are release, closure, forgiveness and the parts of life that resist neat measurement — rest, spirituality, creative surrender. Opposite it, the Sun in Virgo holds the practical ledger. Wherever the 4° Pisces–4° Virgo axis crosses your chart is where astrologers would say something is ready to be seen clearly and set down.
This eclipse follows the total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 at 20° Leo. Eclipse seasons arrive as pairs: the solar eclipse opens a chapter, the lunar eclipse two weeks later brings a related one to a head. Mapping both onto your houses — which this calculator and its solar-eclipse sibling do — shows the two life areas moving in the same fortnight.
At maximum eclipse — 04:12 UTC on August 28, with the partial phase running 02:33 to 05:52 UTC — about 96% of the Moon’s diameter sat inside Earth’s dark umbral shadow (magnitude 0.93). That was deep enough for the eclipsed portion to glow the copper-red of a blood moon, even though a thin bright sliver kept it officially partial. It was visible overnight from the Americas, and around moonset toward dawn from Europe and Africa. Astrologically, visibility is not the point: traditions read eclipses by chart contact. A lunar eclipse you never saw can still fall exactly on your natal Moon — the house and aspects above are the personal reading.
For readers who want the raw positions: at the exact Sun–Moon opposition (04:18 UTC on August 28, 2026; maximum eclipse at 04:12 UTC), the Moon stands at 4°54′ Pisces with the Sun opposite at 4°54′ Virgo. The rest of the sky at that instant: Mercury 5°22′ Virgo, Venus 20°02′ Libra, Mars 10°58′ Cancer, Jupiter 12°54′ Leo, Saturn 13°53′ Aries retrograde, Uranus 5°37′ Gemini, Neptune 3°45′ Aries retrograde, Pluto 3°35′ Aquarius retrograde, True Node 29°50′ Aquarius. The eclipsed Moon sits about 5° from the True Node, inside the band where a full moon becomes a lunar eclipse. Positions are geocentric tropical longitudes from the Swiss Ephemeris; the calculator above drops them into your own houses.
The eclipsed full moon falls at 4° Pisces. A lunar eclipse is read at the Moon’s degree (the Sun sits exactly opposite, at 4° Virgo), so 4° Pisces is the point this calculator checks against your natal chart.
Very nearly. "Blood moon" strictly describes a total lunar eclipse, where the whole Moon sits inside Earth’s umbra and turns copper-red. August 28 was a deep partial: at maximum (04:12 UTC) about 96% of the Moon’s diameter was inside the umbra — umbral magnitude 0.93 — so all but a thin sliver took on the blood-moon colour. Headlines called it one; it fell just short of total. The astrology is unchanged either way: the reading hangs on the 4° Pisces degree, which the calculator above maps to your chart.
Maximum eclipse came at 04:12 UTC on August 28, 2026, with the partial phase running 02:33 to 05:52 UTC. For the Americas that was the night of Thursday, August 27: maximum at 12:12 am EDT (just past midnight into August 28), 11:12 pm CDT, 10:12 pm MDT and 9:12 pm PDT. In the UK maximum fell at 5:12 am BST and in central Europe at 6:12 am CEST, with the Moon low in the west before moonset. This was also the only full moon of August 2026, the one traditionally called the Sturgeon Moon, so the month’s full moon and its eclipse were the same night.
Solar eclipses are supercharged new moons — beginnings. Lunar eclipses are supercharged full moons — culminations, reveals and releases. Astrologers tend to read a lunar eclipse as something coming to a head in the house it touches, often within weeks either side of the exact date.
Run your chart above to see. The tool places 4° Pisces into your exact natal house and lists any conjunction, opposition, square or trine it makes to your Sun, Moon, personal planets, Ascendant or Midheaven within tight orbs. Early-degree Pisces and Virgo placements are the most directly touched.
At the exact Sun–Moon opposition, 04:18 UTC on August 28, 2026 (maximum eclipse: 04:12 UTC; local clock times in the FAQ above): Moon 4°54′ Pisces, Sun 4°54′ Virgo, Mercury 5°22′ Virgo, Venus 20°02′ Libra, Mars 10°58′ Cancer, Jupiter 12°54′ Leo, Saturn 13°53′ Aries retrograde, Uranus 5°37′ Gemini, Neptune 3°45′ Aries retrograde, Pluto 3°35′ Aquarius retrograde, True Node 29°50′ Aquarius. All values are geocentric tropical longitudes from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same engine the calculator above runs on your chart.