Welcome to our first full Moon of the year. Arriving in a season of building, looking ahead, and devoting to bringing our dreams into form – this lunation is a moment of medicine.
When is the Cancer Full Moon 2026?
The January Full Moon meets us 3 January, 2026. See exact times for your location below.
- Wellington: Saturday January 3, 11:02pm
- Sydney: Saturday January 3, 9:02pm
- Tokyo: Saturday January 3, 7:02pm
- Singapore: Saturday January 3, 6:02pm
- New Delhi: Saturday January 3, 3:32pm
- Dubai: Saturday January 3, 2:02pm
- Istanbul: Saturday January 3, 1:02pm
- Paris/Berlin: Saturday January 3, 11:02am
- London: Saturday January 3, 10:02am
- New York/Toronto: Saturday January 3, 5:02am
- Los Angeles/Vancouver: Saturday January 3, 2:02am
Full Moon in Cancer Spiritual Meaning
Our first full Moon of the year is a moment to tune in. Touch down. Feel. Receive. Open. Remember. A moment to observe. Release. Surrender and renew ourselves.
A moment to turn up the voice of Soul – ensuring we are moving only from what is real, meaningful, nourishing and aligned for us.
A moment to tune into the emotions, the patterns, the fears and the hurts alive within our bodies – the ones rising to the surface in response to our deepening devotion – the ones arising in response to our forward movement – the ones arising in response to the unfolding of this new year, this new chapter, this new life waiting ahead of us and calling us toward it.
For as we move ahead, guided by the truth of our soul and the knowings of our hearts, we invite all that is fearful in response to that movement into healing and evolution.
We invite all that has lived beneath the surface, all that has solidified into patterns for the purpose of safety, all that has gone untouched and unquestioned in our psyche, body, lineage, unconscious – into our hearts. So that we may love it instead of abandon it. So that we may hold it instead of ignore it. So that we may remember each emotion, each fear, each memory, each pattern as a worthy, loveable, medicinal part of ourselves – yearning to know remember this truth.
This lunation reminds us that no part of us is missing its divinity. No part of us is any less worthy than the air we breathe, the water of our earth, the stars in our skies. No part of us is missing our spark of creation, innate medicine, or the wisdom breathing through us in each moment. Everything that we look away from holds medicine for us.
Everything that we abandon within holds medicine for us. Everything we fear of touching, feeling, remembering, loving, holds medicine for us. And it is Cancer – our zodiac of the Mother, the womb, the Sacred Protector of Life and the Emotional Alchemist – reminding us of this tonight.
Cancer Full Moon Astrology
This full Moon asks for softness and surrender. And it asks for the kind of strength that allows us to swim within our inner waters – open to what lives within, open to what is ready to be held.
In a brand new year, a brand new frequency, a lifetime of beauty and potential, opportunity and building that lays ahead of us – it offers intuition, an inner compass rooted in the depths of soul, swimming within the map of our emotions.
As the year opens before us; the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars shine in Capricorn inviting us to embrace the role of Sacred Builder. The Steward of our Dreams. The Weaver of potential into form, energy into matter.
This lunation arrives to that we may build based on truth, based on love, based on intuitive knowing of what is for us. So that we may build in a way that is sustainable and nourishing – bringing all of us with us; our softness and our strength, our needs and our depth, our hurts and our deeper dreams. And so that we may build in a way that honours all of Life.
The Moon shining in the realm of Cancer is the Great Mother, the Womb, the Sacred Protector of Life and you.
She invites us into her arms as if her embrace is the most safe, nourishing, loving space in this Universe and beyond. For it is in these moments of safety, of remembering just how infinitely loved we are in this world, that everything within our bodies begin rearranging, that we surrender what we have been clinging to, that we open to becoming the truth of who we are.
Cancer Full Moon Ritual
Cancer Full Moon Ritual: Inner Sea ~ Meaning, Alignment & Trust
A return to trust. To the greater flow that carries your life, your becoming, your joy, and your creativity. A return to your emotional truth and intuitive knowing. To the felt sense that guides your next steps forward. To what matters to you in this moment. To what feels alive, tender, and true. And a return to surrender, receptivity, trust, and guidance.
An intimate and nourishing energy practice alongside the Cancer Full Moon. A space to orient to this new path that lays ahead of us: the new seasons, cycles, and chapters beginning in 2026.
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Full Moon January 2026 Planetary & Astrological Influences
- Sun conjunct Venus and Mars in Capricorn
- Moon in Cancer opposite Sun, Venus and Mars in Capricorn
- Sun, Venus and Mars in Capricorn sextile North Node in Pisces
- Sun, Venus and Mars in Capricorn trine South Node in Virgo
- Moon in Cancer trine North Node in Pisces
- Moon in Cancer sextile South Node in Virgo
- Mercury in Capricorn square Saturn and Neptune in Pisces
- Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer trine Saturn and Neptune in Pisces
- Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer square Chiron in Aries
- Saturn and Neptune in Pisces trine Uranus Retrograde in Taurus
- Saturn and Neptune in Pisces sextile Pluto in Aquarius
Full Moon in Cancer Horoscope for each Zodiac Sign
Watch below for your Full Moon in Cancer lunar Horoscope for your zodiac sign by Kapualani. Be sure to watch your Sun, Moon and Rising Sign!
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- Aries: 0:00
- Taurus: 6:14
- Gemini: 13:07
- Cancer: 19:13
- Leo: 24:50
- Virgo: 32:15
- Libra: 39:23
- Scorpio: 45:52
- Sagittarius: 51:26
- Capricorn: 57:24
- Aquarius: 1:04:20
- Pisces: 1:11:14
